On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 07:41:11AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Mateusz Guzik <mgu...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Explicit locking in the fallback case provides a safe state of the > > table. Getting rid of blocking semantics makes __fd_install usable > > again in non-sleepable contexts, which easies backporting efforts. > > > > There is a side effect of slightly nicer assembly for the common case > > as might_sleep can now be removed. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mgu...@redhat.com> > > --- > > Documentation/filesystems/porting | 4 ---- > > fs/file.c | 11 +++++++---- > > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > Nice change ! > > Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
Hey Eric, Any chance you could review the patches from Sandhya that make this entire codepath obsolete? https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/29/20
