On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 7:42 AM Steven Whitehouse wrote:
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> I'll leave the finer details to Andreas here, since it is his patch, and
> hopefully we can figure out a good path forward.
As mentioned, I don't _hate_ that patch (ok, I seem to have typoed it
and said that I don't "gate" it ;), so if
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 4:42 PM Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
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> On 25/11/2019 17:05, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 2:53 AM Steven Whitehouse
> > wrote:
> >> Linus, is that roughly what you were thinking of?
> > So the concept looks ok, but I don't really like the new flags
Hi,
On 25/11/2019 17:05, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 2:53 AM Steven Whitehouse wrote:
Linus, is that roughly what you were thinking of?
So the concept looks ok, but I don't really like the new flags as they
seem to be gfs2-specific rather than generic.
That said, I don't _g
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 2:53 AM Steven Whitehouse wrote:
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> Linus, is that roughly what you were thinking of?
So the concept looks ok, but I don't really like the new flags as they
seem to be gfs2-specific rather than generic.
That said, I don't _gate_ them either, since they aren't in any
crit
Hi,
On 22/11/2019 23:59, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
Hi,
Am Do., 31. Okt. 2019 um 12:43 Uhr schrieb Steven Whitehouse
:
Andreas, Bob, have I missed anything here?
I've looked into this a bit, and it seems that there's a reasonable
way to get rid of the lock taking in ->readpage and ->readpages
Hi,
Am Do., 31. Okt. 2019 um 12:43 Uhr schrieb Steven Whitehouse
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> Andreas, Bob, have I missed anything here?
I've looked into this a bit, and it seems that there's a reasonable
way to get rid of the lock taking in ->readpage and ->readpages
without a lot of code duplication. My proposal for th
Hi,
On 30/10/2019 10:54, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 11:35 AM Steven Whitehouse wrote:
NFS may be ok here, but it will break GFS2. There may be others too...
OCFS2 is likely one. Not sure about CIFS either. Does it really matter
that we might occasionally allocate a page and
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 11:35 AM Steven Whitehouse wrote:
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> NFS may be ok here, but it will break GFS2. There may be others too...
> OCFS2 is likely one. Not sure about CIFS either. Does it really matter
> that we might occasionally allocate a page and then free it again?
Why are gfs2 and cifs
Hi,
On 29/10/2019 16:52, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:25 PM Konstantin Khlebnikov
wrote:
I think all network filesystems which synchronize metadata lazily should be
marked. For example as "SB_VOLATILE". And vfs could handle them specially.
No need. The VFS layer doesn't cal
