Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph updates for 5.20-rc1 | From | Jeff Layton <> | Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:30:03 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2022-08-11 at 22:22 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 05:08:11PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > Actually, I never got a formal ack from Al. I did send it repeatedly, > > but I assume he has been too busy to respond. We've had it sitting in > > linux-next for a couple of months, and he did suggest that approach in > > the first place, but I too would also prefer to see his official ack on > > it. > > "Suggested approach" had been about inode_insert5() changes, right?
Right. I was talking about this patch (which I think is sane):
fs: change test in inode_insert5 for adding to the sb list
> But that's fs/inode.c side of things... I have to admit that I'd missed > the unlining d_same_name() - exporting the sucker per se didn't look > insane and I hadn't looked at that in details ;-/ > > Looking at it now... might be worth renaming it into __d_same_name(), > leaving it inlined and exporting a wrapper; not sure if the impact on > d_lookup()/__d_lookup()/d_alloc_parallel() is worth worrying about it, > though. > > Profiling a case when we have a plenty of files in the same directory > on tmpfs, with something earlier in the pathname to kick out of RCU > mode (e.g. going through /proc/self/cwd) might be interesting...
The d_name_name changes seemed ok to me, but it would be good to have your ack (or qualified NAK) if possible.
-- Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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