Re: [PATCH/RFC] z3fold: add kref refcounting

2016-12-14 Thread Dan Streetman
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Vitaly Wool wrote: > > Even with already present locking optimizations (and with the so...is your patch series for z3fold that's in mmotm getting resent? Wouldn't that be better than re-patching mistakes from the previous patches? None of

Re: [PATCH/RFC] z3fold: add kref refcounting

2016-12-14 Thread Dan Streetman
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Vitaly Wool wrote: > > Even with already present locking optimizations (and with the so...is your patch series for z3fold that's in mmotm getting resent? Wouldn't that be better than re-patching mistakes from the previous patches? None of it's gone upstream to

[PATCH/RFC] z3fold: add kref refcounting

2016-12-08 Thread Vitaly Wool
Even with already present locking optimizations (and with the page compaction to come), using kref for reference counting z3fold objects seems to be the right thing to do. Moreover, it makes buddied list no longer necessary, and allows for simpler handling of headless pages. Signed-off-by:

[PATCH/RFC] z3fold: add kref refcounting

2016-12-08 Thread Vitaly Wool
Even with already present locking optimizations (and with the page compaction to come), using kref for reference counting z3fold objects seems to be the right thing to do. Moreover, it makes buddied list no longer necessary, and allows for simpler handling of headless pages. Signed-off-by: