On Fri 20-11-20 10:15:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:39:21PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > This patch is kind of difficult to review due to the size of mostly
> > mechanical changes mixed with not completely mechanical changes. Can we
> > perhaps split out the mechanical bit
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:39:21PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> This patch is kind of difficult to review due to the size of mostly
> mechanical changes mixed with not completely mechanical changes. Can we
> perhaps split out the mechanical bits? E.g. the rq->part => rq->bdev
> renaming is mechanical a
On Wed 18-11-20 09:47:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of having two structures that represent each block device with
> different lift time rules merged them into a single one. This also
^^^ :) life merge
> greatly simplifies the reference counting rules, as we can use
Instead of having two structures that represent each block device with
different lift time rules merged them into a single one. This also
greatly simplifies the reference counting rules, as we can use the inode
reference count as the main reference count for the new struct
block_device, with the d
