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From: "J . Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-integrity <linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: replace i_readcount with a biased i_count
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:29:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190612152927.GE16331@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxhooVwtHcDCr4hu+ovzKGUdWfQ+3F3nbgK3HXgV+fUK9w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 06:09:59PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> But if I am following Miklos' suggestion to make i_count 64bit, inode
> struct size is going to grow for 32bit arch when  CONFIG_IMA is not
> defined, so to reduce impact, I will keep i_readcount as a separate
> member and let it be defined also when BITS_PER_LONG == 64
> and implement inode_is_open_rdonly() using d_count and i_count
> when i_readcount is not defined.

How bad would it be just to let the inode be a little bigger?  How big
is it already on 32 bit architectures?  How much does this change e.g.
how many inodes you can cache per megabyte?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-12 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-08 13:57 [PATCH 0/2] Fix write leases on overlayfs Amir Goldstein
2019-06-08 13:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfs: replace i_readcount with a biased i_count Amir Goldstein
2019-06-09 19:36   ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-06-12 12:51   ` Mimi Zohar
2019-06-12 15:09     ` Amir Goldstein
2019-06-12 15:29       ` J . Bruce Fields [this message]
2019-06-12 15:35         ` Amir Goldstein
2019-06-12 15:59       ` Mimi Zohar
2019-06-08 13:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] locks: eliminate false positive conflicts for write lease Amir Goldstein

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