linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] fs/file.c: optimize the critical section of file

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Message-ID: <20240812024044.GF13701@ZenIV>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:40:44 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To: "Ma, Yu" <yu.ma@...el.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, jack@...e.cz, mjguzik@...il.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pan.deng@...el.com,
	tianyou.li@...el.com, tim.c.chen@...el.com,
	tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] fs/file.c: optimize the critical section of
 file_lock in

On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 09:31:17AM +0800, Ma, Yu wrote:
> 
> On 8/5/2024 2:56 PM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 03:22:48PM GMT, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 01:04:44PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > > > Hmm...   Something fishy's going on - those are not reachable by any branches.
> > > > Hm, they probably got dropped when rebasing to v6.11-rc1 and I did have
> > > > to play around with --onto.
> > > > 
> > > > > I'm putting together (in viro/vfs.git) a branch for that area (#work.fdtable)
> > > > > and I'm going to apply those 3 unless anyone objects.
> > > > Fine since they aren't in that branch. Otherwise I generally prefer to
> > > > just merge a common branch.
> > > If it's going to be rebased anyway, I don't see much difference from cherry-pick,
> > > TBH...
> > Yeah, but I generally don't rebase after -rc1 anymore unles there's
> > really annoying conflicts.
> 
> Thanks Christian and Al for your time and efforts. I'm not familiar with the
> merging process, may i know about when these patches could be seen in master

It's in work.fdtable in my tree, will post that series tonight and add to #for-next