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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: cmm@us.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 1/5] i_version:64 bit inode version
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:05:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18068.25879.745638.343290@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Neil Brown on Wednesday July 11


It just occurred to me:

 If i_version is 64bit, then knfsd would need to be careful when
 reading it on a 32bit host.  What are the locking rules?

 Presumably it is only updated under i_mutex protection, but having to
 get i_mutex to read it would seem a little heavy handed.

 Should it use a seqlock like i_size?
 Could we use the same seqlock that i_size uses, or would we need a
 separate one?

NeilBrown

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-11  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-01  7:37 [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 1/5] i_version:64 bit inode version Mingming Cao
2007-07-02 14:58 ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-03 14:24   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-07-03 21:56     ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-03 22:15   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-03 23:32     ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-06 13:51       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-06 22:53         ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-09 21:16           ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-10 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-10 22:09   ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11  1:22     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  0:19       ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11  4:22         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  2:27           ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11 16:57         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-11  3:21       ` Neil Brown
2007-07-11  2:09         ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11  5:17           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  3:18             ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11  6:35               ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  3:34         ` Trond Myklebust
2007-07-11 11:41           ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-11  5:05         ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-07-11  5:22           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11 14:28           ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-11 20:04             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-12  4:56               ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-11 17:26         ` J. Bruce Fields

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