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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] lib/dlock-list: Enable faster lookup with hashing
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 04:06:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171005110601.GA5131@linux-80c1.suse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171005091406.GD28132@quack2.suse.cz>

On Thu, 05 Oct 2017, Jan Kara wrote:

>OK, this makes sense but do you have any particular user in mind? In
>particular I'm not sure how big advantage this API brings over an existing
>one in include/linux/list_bl.h. Sure it's a tradeoff between bitlock /
>spinlock but is there a user where it matters?

This was tailored with epoll nested callbacks in mind, we've been discussing
offline. I have not looked at list_bl.h nonetheless.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-04 21:20 [PATCH v6 0/6] vfs: Use dlock list for SB's s_inodes list Waiman Long
2017-10-04 21:20 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] lib/dlock-list: Distributed and lock-protected lists Waiman Long
2017-10-04 21:20 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() variants Waiman Long
2017-10-04 21:20 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] vfs: Use dlock list for superblock's inode list Waiman Long
2017-10-04 21:20 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] lib/dlock-list: Make sibling CPUs share the same linked list Waiman Long
2017-10-05  8:59   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-05 14:57     ` Waiman Long
2017-10-09  7:26       ` Jan Kara
2017-10-05 17:40   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2017-10-05 18:01     ` Waiman Long
2017-10-07 13:44   ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-07 14:38   ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-04 21:20 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] lib/dlock-list: Enable faster lookup with hashing Waiman Long
2017-10-05  9:14   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-05 11:06     ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2017-10-04 21:20 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] lib/dlock-list: Provide IRQ-safe APIs Waiman Long
2017-10-04 22:46   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2017-10-05 13:40     ` Waiman Long

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