linux-ext4 - Re: [GIT PULL] afs: Improvements for v5.8

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Date:   Fri, 5 Jun 2020 16:33:35 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] afs: Improvements for v5.8

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 9:58 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>  (4) Improve Ext4's time updating.  Konstantin Khlebnikov said "For now,
>      I've plugged this issue with try-lock in ext4 lazy time update.  This
>      solution is much better."

It would have been good to get acks on this from the ext4 people, but
I've merged this as-is (but it's still going through my sanity tests,
so if that triggers something it might get unpulled again).

                  Linus