On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 09:10:54AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 at 02:27, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >
> > So I've picked up your patch (vfs.misc). It's clever alright so thanks
> > for the comments in there otherwise I would've stared at this for far
> > too long.
>
> Note
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 at 02:27, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> So I've picked up your patch (vfs.misc). It's clever alright so thanks
> for the comments in there otherwise I would've stared at this for far
> too long.
Note that I should probably have commented on one other thing: that
whole "just
> So that nobody else would waste any time on this, attached is a new
> attempt. This time actually tested *after* the changes.
So I've picked up your patch (vfs.misc). It's clever alright so thanks
for the comments in there otherwise I would've stared at this for far
too long.
It's a little
> I took a look at the code generation, and honestly, I think we're
> better off just making __fget_files_rcu() have special logic for this
> all, and not use __get_file_rcu().
My initial massaging of the patch did that btw. Then I sat there
wondering whether it would matter if we just made it
hi, Linus,
On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 03:20:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 at 12:23, Linus Torvalds
> wrote:
> >
> > IOW, I might have messed up some "trivial cleanup" when prepping for
> > sending it out...
>
> Bah. Famous last words. One of the "trivial cleanups" made
On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 at 12:23, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> IOW, I might have messed up some "trivial cleanup" when prepping for
> sending it out...
Bah. Famous last words. One of the "trivial cleanups" made the code
more "obvious" by renaming the nospec mask as just "mask".
And that trivial rename
On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 at 23:11, kernel test robot wrote:
>
> kernel test robot noticed a -2.9% regression of will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
> on:
>
> commit: 0ede61d8589cc2d93aa78230d74ac58b5b8d0244 ("file: convert to
> SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU")
Ok, so __fget_light() is one of our more
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 03:11:31PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> kernel test robot noticed a -2.9% regression of will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
> on:
>
>
> commit: 0ede61d8589cc2d93aa78230d74ac58b5b8d0244 ("file: convert to
> SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU")
>
