Re: bcachefs status update (it's done cooking; let's get this sucker merged)

Linus Torvalds
2019-06-12T02:08:03Z

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 9:11 PM Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> The same rwsem issues were seen on the mmap_sem, the shrinker rwsem,
> in a couple of device drivers, and so on. i.e. This isn't an XFS
> issue I'm raising here - I'm raising a concern about the lack of
> validation of core infrastructure and it's suitability for
> functionality extensions.

I haven't actually seen the reports.

That said, I do think this should be improving. The random
architecture-specific code is largely going away, and we'll have a
unified rwsem.

It might obviously cause some pain initially, but I think long-term we
should be much better off, at least avoiding the "on particular
configurations" issue..

Linus