linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v16 0/9] Cache insensitive cleanup for ext4/f2fs

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Message-ID: <1c4eae9a-ad82-4a89-9c0e-a0d61a4667f1@collabora.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 18:12:57 +0300
From: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@...labora.com>
To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...e.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, tytso@....edu,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 0/9] Cache insensitive cleanup for ext4/f2fs

Hello Krisman,

On 4/5/24 19:37, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev@...labora.com> writes:
> 
>> On 4/5/24 15:18, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 03:13:23PM +0300, Eugen Hristev wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to respin the series here :
>>>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg85081.html
>>>
>>> The subject here is "Cache insensitive cleanup for ext4/f2fs".
>>> Cache insensitive means something entirely different
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm
>>>
>>> I suspect you mean "Case insensitive".
>>
>> You are correct, I apologize for the typo.
> 
> Heh. I completely missed it in the previous submissions. I guess we both
> just mentally auto-corrected.
> 
> Since we are here, I think I contributed to the typo in the cover letter
> with the summary lines of patch 1 and 2.  Differently from the rest of
> the series, these two are actually working on a "cache of
> casefolded strings".  But their summary lines are misleading.
> 
> Can you rename them to:
> 
> [PATCH v16 1/9] ext4: Simplify the handling of cached casefolded names
> [PATCH v16 2/9] f2fs: Simplify the handling of cached casefolded names
> 
> From a quick look, the series is looking good and the strict mode issue
> pointed in the last iteration seems fixed, though I didn't run it yet.
> I'll take a closer look later today and fully review.
> 

Have you managed to take a look ? What would be the future of the series ? I didn't
want to send another version for just a subject change, but I can if that's the
only change required .

Thanks,
Eugen