From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [man-pages RFC PATCH v4] statx, inode: document the new STATX_INO_VERSION field
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:46:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yxzpsdn4S6mTToct@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <166259764365.30452.5588074352157110414@noble.neil.brown.name>
On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 10:40:43AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> We do hold i_rwsem today. I'm working on changing that. Preserving
> atomic directory changeinfo will be a challenge. The only mechanism I
> can think if is to pass a "u64*" to all the directory modification ops,
> and they fill in the version number at the point where it is incremented
> (inode_maybe_inc_iversion_return()). The (nfsd) caller assumes that
> "before" was one less than "after". If you don't want to internally
> require single increments, then you would need to pass a 'u64 [2]' to
> get two iversions back.
Are you serious? What kind of boilerplate would that inflict on the
filesystems not, er, opting in for that... scalability improvement
experiment?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-10 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-07 11:16 [man-pages RFC PATCH v4] statx, inode: document the new STATX_INO_VERSION field Jeff Layton
2022-09-07 11:37 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-07 12:20 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-07 12:58 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-07 12:47 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-07 12:52 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-07 13:12 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-07 13:51 ` Jan Kara
2022-09-07 14:43 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-08 0:44 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-08 8:33 ` Jan Kara
2022-09-08 15:21 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-09-08 15:44 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-08 15:44 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-08 15:56 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-08 16:15 ` Chuck Lever III
2022-09-08 17:40 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-08 18:22 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-08 19:07 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-08 23:01 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-08 23:23 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-08 23:45 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-09 15:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-09 16:36 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-10 14:56 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-12 11:42 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-12 12:13 ` Florian Weimer
2022-09-12 12:55 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-12 13:20 ` Florian Weimer
2022-09-12 13:49 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-12 13:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-12 14:02 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-12 14:47 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-12 14:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-12 14:50 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-12 14:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-12 15:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-12 15:49 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-12 12:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-12 12:59 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-13 0:29 ` John Stoffel
2022-09-13 0:41 ` Dave Chinner
2022-09-13 1:49 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-13 2:41 ` Dave Chinner
2022-09-13 3:30 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-13 9:38 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-09-13 19:02 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-13 23:19 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-14 0:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-09 20:34 ` John Stoffel
2022-09-10 22:13 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-12 10:43 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-12 13:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-12 23:14 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-15 14:06 ` J. Bruce Fields
2022-09-15 15:08 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-15 16:45 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-15 17:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-15 18:11 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-15 19:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-15 19:25 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-15 22:23 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-16 6:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-09-16 11:36 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-16 15:11 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-18 23:53 ` Dave Chinner
2022-09-19 13:13 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-20 0:16 ` Dave Chinner
2022-09-20 10:26 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-21 0:00 ` Dave Chinner
2022-09-21 10:33 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-21 21:41 ` Dave Chinner
2022-09-22 10:18 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-22 20:18 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-23 9:56 ` Jan Kara
2022-09-23 10:19 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-23 13:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-23 13:50 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-23 14:58 ` Frank Filz
2022-09-26 22:43 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-27 11:14 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-27 13:18 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-15 15:41 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-15 22:42 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-16 11:32 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-09 12:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-09-09 12:47 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-09 13:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-09-09 14:43 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-09 14:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-09-08 22:55 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-08 23:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-09 0:51 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-09 1:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-09 1:07 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-09 1:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-09 2:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-09 6:41 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-10 12:39 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-10 22:53 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-12 10:25 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-12 23:29 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-13 1:15 ` Dave Chinner
2022-09-13 1:41 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-13 19:01 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-13 23:24 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-14 11:51 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-14 22:45 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-14 23:02 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-08 22:40 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-07 13:55 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-07 14:05 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-07 15:04 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-07 15:11 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-08 0:40 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-08 11:34 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-08 22:29 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-09 11:53 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-10 22:58 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-10 19:46 ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-09-10 23:00 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-08 0:31 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-08 0:41 ` Trond Myklebust
2022-09-08 0:53 ` NeilBrown
2022-09-08 11:37 ` Jeff Layton
2022-09-08 12:40 ` Trond Myklebust
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