Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/6] inode: turn i_state into u32

[Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 05:47:30PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> So first time I managed to send out my personal wip branch.
> So for the record: The intention is to send what's in work.i_state on
> vfs/vfs.git.
> 
> ---
> I've recently looked for some free space in struct inode again because
> of some exec kerfuffle we recently had and while my idea didn't turn
> into anything I noticed that we often waste bytes when using wait bit
> operations. So I set out to switch that to another mechanism that would
> allow us to free up bytes. So this is an attempt to turn i_state from
> an unsigned long into an u32 using the individual bytes of i_state as
> addresses for the wait var event mechanism (Thanks to Linus for that idea.).
> 
> This survives LTP, xfstests on various filesystems, and will-it-scale.
> 
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> 
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Actually send out the correct branch.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240816-vfs-misc-dio-v1-1-80fe21a2c710@kernel.org
> 

You can add

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

to the series, thanks,

Josef