linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] Add threading support to e2fsprogs

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Message-ID: <YAmjGnSBNBssB1XW@mit.edu>
Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:51:54 -0500
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Saranya Muruganandam <saranyamohan@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] Add threading support to e2fsprogs

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 04:27:18PM -0800, Saranya Muruganandam wrote:
> This patch set adds the infrastructure to support threading to
> libext2fs.  It makes the unix_io I/O Manager thread-aware.  Wang's
> parallel bitmap code has been adapted to use the new threading
> infrastructure.
> 
> The code has been tested with TSAN and ASAN built into gcc 10.2:
> 
>     configure 'CFLAGS=-g -fsanitize=thread' 'LDFLAGS=-fsanitize=thread'
>     make clean ; make -j16 ; make -j16 check
>     configure 'CFLAGS=-g -fsanitize=address' 'LDFLAGS=-fsanitize=address'
>     make clean ; make -j16 ; make -j16 check
> 
> As I(tytso) needed to excerpt out some of the changes to generated patches in
> "Add configure and build support for the pthreads", the full patch
> series can be found in git:
> 
> git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git pthreads

Thanks, I've applied this patch series.  (There were some slight merge
conflicts due to some other changes from the maint branch so I had to
regenerate the aclocal.m4 and configure files.)

							- Ted