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 r
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Mateusz Guzik 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
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 07:41:11AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Mateusz Guzik 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, wh
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 07:41:11AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>> > Explicit locking in the fallback case provides a safe state of the
>> > table. Getting rid of blocking semantics makes
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 07:00:40AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Any chance you could review the patches from Sandhya that make this entire
> > codepath obsolete?
> >
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/29/20
> >
>
> Hmm...
>
> 18 files chang
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 07:00:40AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> > Any chance you could review the patches from Sandhya that make this entire
>> > codepath obsolete?
>> >
>> > https://
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