linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Take 3 at async RPCs and no longer looping forever on signals

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:26:54 +0100
From:   Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>
To:     v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Take 3 at async RPCs and no longer looping forever on signals

On Saturday, February 11, 2023 8:50:18 AM CET Dominique Martinet wrote:
> I've been working on async RPCs for a while and never had time to debug
> the last issues this had, but by limiting the async clunks to failures
> the impact is drastically smaller and I've not been able to reproduce
> any more bug so far.
> 
> This will require some more testing and I'm tempted to say this is not
> worth rushing this into the merge window next week-ish; the new problem
> Jens reported with task_work isn't really new and I'd rather get this
> right than rush new bugs in given the sour experience I've had with this
> patch series... Hopefully it'll get in this time.
> With that in mind I plan to take the patches in to my -next branch after
> the merge window, so this has time to get reviewed first.
> 
> I'd like to measure impact on performance as well, but really spent way
> more time on this than I already have, so that'll have to wait a bit.

I have not observed performance degradation, nor any (new) errors. So for
this entire series:

Tested-by: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>