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* [PATCH 0/3] RFC improvements to radix-tree related to DAX
@ 2016-02-28  5:09 NeilBrown
  2016-02-28  5:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] radix-tree: support locking of individual exception entries NeilBrown
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From: NeilBrown @ 2016-02-28  5:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ross Zwisler, Matthew Wilcox, Andrew Morton, Jan Kara
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm

Hi,

While pondering some issues with DAX and how it uses the radix tree I
conceived the following patches.  I don't know if they'll be useful
but I thought I would post them in case they are helpful.

The first is quite independent of the others - it removes some DAX
specific #defines from radix-tree.h which is a generic ADT.

The second makes an extra bit available when exception data is
stored in the radix tree.

The third uses this bit to provide a sleeping lock.  With this
it should be possible to delete exceptional entries from the radix
tree in a race-free way without external locking.
Like the page lock it requires an external set of wait_queue_heads.
The same ones used for page_lock would be suitable.

Note that this code is only compile tested.

NeilBrown


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NeilBrown (3):
      DAX: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c
      radix-tree: make 'indirect' bit available to exception entries.
      radix-tree: support locking of individual exception entries.


 fs/dax.c                   |    9 ++
 include/linux/radix-tree.h |   28 +++++---
 lib/radix-tree.c           |  160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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2016-02-28  6:27   ` NeilBrown
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2016-03-04 10:14       ` NeilBrown
2016-03-04 12:31         ` Jan Kara
2016-03-09  2:13           ` NeilBrown
2016-02-28  5:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] DAX: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c NeilBrown
2016-02-29 14:28   ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2016-02-29 17:46     ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-28  5:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] radix-tree: make 'indirect' bit available to exception entries NeilBrown
2016-02-29 14:41   ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2016-03-01 21:59     ` Ross Zwisler

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