From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Carmeli Tamir <carmeli.tamir@gmail.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use list.h instead of file_system_type next
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 06:45:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190504134503.GA16963@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190504094549.10021-2-carmeli.tamir@gmail.com>
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:45:48AM -0400, Carmeli Tamir wrote:
> Changed file_system_type next field to list_head and refactored
> the code to use list.h functions.
What might be interesting is getting rid of this list and using an XArray
instead. This would be a more in-depth change; getting rid of the rwlock
in favour of using RCU accesses for the read-side and the xa_lock for
write accesses to the filesystem list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-04 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-04 9:45 [PATCH 0/2] Refactor file_systems to use the kernel's list Carmeli Tamir
2019-05-04 9:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] Use list.h instead of file_system_type next Carmeli Tamir
2019-05-04 13:20 ` Al Viro
2019-05-04 13:45 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-05-05 18:25 ` Tamir Carmeli
2019-05-06 2:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-05-06 15:16 ` kbuild test robot
2019-05-06 17:33 ` kbuild test robot
2019-05-04 9:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] Changed unsigned param type to unsigned int Carmeli Tamir
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