linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/30] fs: inode->i

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Date:   Fri, 12 May 2017 11:57:04 -0400
From:   "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/30] fs: inode->i_version rework and optimization

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 07:01:25AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> This looks reasonable to me (modulo Jan's comment about casting tv_sec
> to u64).
> 
> To be clear, I think this is mostly orthogonal to the changes that I was
> originally proposing, right? I think we can still benefit from only
> bumping and storing i_version values after they've been queried.

Definitely, yes.

--b.