From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
swhiteho@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Get rid of I_MUTEX_QUOTA use
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:26:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120426132608.GA10368@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120425212532.GB3251@fieldses.org>
On Wed 25-04-12 17:25:32, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:57:41PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > this patch set changes generic quota code (and filesystems relying on it)
> > so that they don't use special locking class I_MUTEX_QUOTA. The only remaining
> > user of I_MUTEX_QUOTA is GFS2. If noone has objections, I can merge these
> > patches through my tree or Bruce, you can take them as your work depends
> > on these changes.
>
> My changes will likely need to go through Al, and depend on GFS2 being
> fixed as well.
>
> So it's up to Al. Best might be to just merge it through your tree and
> let us sort it out in the next merge window?
OK, I've added patches to my tree for now. I also sent a patch for GFS2
but after some investigation that's mostly a cleanup grade and Steven can
merge it independently. Quota inode in GFS2 is hidden system file so there
should be no locking problems with it wrt your patches.
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-26 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 20:57 [PATCH 0/6] Get rid of I_MUTEX_QUOTA use Jan Kara
2012-04-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] ext3: Remove i_mutex use from ext3_quota_write() Jan Kara
2012-04-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 2/6] ext4: Remove i_mutex use from ext4_quota_write() Jan Kara
2012-04-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 3/6] reiserfs: Remove i_mutex use from reiserfs_quota_write() Jan Kara
2012-04-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 4/6] ext2: Remove i_mutex use from ext2_quota_write() Jan Kara
2012-04-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 5/6] quota: Use precomputed value of sb_dqopt in dquot_quota_sync Jan Kara
2012-04-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] quota: Get rid of nested I_MUTEX_QUOTA locking subclass Jan Kara
2012-04-25 21:25 ` [PATCH 0/6] Get rid of I_MUTEX_QUOTA use J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-26 13:26 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2012-04-27 13:47 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-30 13:54 ` Jan Kara
2012-05-09 21:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
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