From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/21] dentry: switch the lists of children to hlist
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 07:55:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231124075509.GU38156@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxjyS45FKJORfxpMHeFbZhszNR2QM6nTF46UxT1iz85Gsg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 09:44:27AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 8:05 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Saves a pointer per struct dentry and actually makes the things less
> > clumsy. Cleaned the d_walk() and dcache_readdir() a bit by use
> > of hlist_for_... iterators.
> >
> > A couple of new helpers - d_first_child() and d_next_sibling(),
> > to make the expressions less awful.
> >
> > X-fuck-kABI: gladly
>
> ???
It breaks kABI. Hard. For a good reason. And if you need an elaboration
of the reasons why kABI is, er, not universally liked - let's take it
to private email. Some rants are really too unprintable for maillists...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-24 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-24 6:02 [RFC][PATCHSET v3] simplifying fast_dput(), dentry_kill() et.al Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 01/21] switch nfsd_client_rmdir() to use of simple_recursive_removal() Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 02/21] coda_flag_children(): cope with dentries turning negative Al Viro
2023-11-24 21:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-11-24 22:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 03/21] dentry: switch the lists of children to hlist Al Viro
2023-11-24 7:44 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-11-24 7:55 ` Al Viro [this message]
2023-11-24 8:02 ` Amir Goldstein
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 04/21] centralize killing dentry from shrink list Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 05/21] shrink_dentry_list(): no need to check that dentry refcount is marked dead Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 06/21] fast_dput(): having ->d_delete() is not reason to delay refcount decrement Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 07/21] fast_dput(): handle underflows gracefully Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 08/21] fast_dput(): new rules for refcount Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 09/21] __dput_to_list(): do decrement of refcount in the callers Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 10/21] make retain_dentry() neutral with respect to refcounting Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 11/21] __dentry_kill(): get consistent rules for victim's refcount Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 12/21] dentry_kill(): don't bother with retain_dentry() on slow path Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 13/21] Call retain_dentry() with refcount 0 Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 14/21] fold the call of retain_dentry() into fast_dput() Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 15/21] don't try to cut corners in shrink_lock_dentry() Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 16/21] fold dentry_kill() into dput() Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 17/21] to_shrink_list(): call only if refcount is 0 Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 18/21] switch select_collect{,2}() to use of to_shrink_list() Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 19/21] d_prune_aliases(): use a shrink list Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 20/21] __dentry_kill(): new locking scheme Al Viro
2025-07-07 17:20 ` Max Kellermann
2025-07-07 17:29 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 17:43 ` Max Kellermann
2025-07-07 18:00 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 18:11 ` Max Kellermann
2025-07-07 19:31 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 20:00 ` Max Kellermann
2025-07-07 20:31 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 20:39 ` Max Kellermann
2025-07-07 20:49 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 20:52 ` Max Kellermann
2025-07-07 20:59 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 21:06 ` Max Kellermann
2025-07-07 21:32 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 21:47 ` Max Kellermann
2025-07-07 22:19 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 22:37 ` Al Viro
2025-07-08 4:45 ` Max Kellermann
2026-01-21 21:55 ` Al Viro
2026-01-22 6:24 ` Al Viro
2025-07-07 22:26 ` Al Viro
2023-11-24 6:04 ` [PATCH v3 21/21] retain_dentry(): introduce a trimmed-down lockless variant Al Viro
2023-11-24 21:28 ` [RFC][PATCHSET v3] simplifying fast_dput(), dentry_kill() et.al Linus Torvalds
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