From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:29:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D6E646.6020703@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130705150224.GS4165@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On 07/05/2013 11:02 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:47:33AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> v4->v5:
>> - Add a d_count() helper for readonly access of reference count and
>> change all references to d_count outside of dcache.c, dcache.h
>> and namei.c to use d_count().
> Sigh... You are breaking bisectability again. This helper should
> be introduced *first*, along with conversion to it. Then you can
> do the rest on top of that.
>
> I've just pushed such commit into vfs.git#for-linus; please, do the rest
> on top of it. And keep it bisectable, i.e. so that at any intermediate
> point the tree would build and work.
I am sorry. I didn't change anything in the dentry structure in patch 3.
So putting patches 4-11 on top of it won't break the build.
Regards,
Longman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-05 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-05 14:47 [PATCH v5 00/12] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock Waiman Long
2013-07-05 14:47 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount Waiman Long
2013-07-05 18:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-08 14:21 ` Waiman Long
2013-07-15 14:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-15 21:24 ` Waiman Long
2013-07-15 23:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-16 1:40 ` Waiman Long
2013-07-05 14:47 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] spinlock: Enable x86 architecture to do lockless refcount update Waiman Long
2013-07-05 20:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 14:47 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] dcache: rename d_count field of dentry to d_refcount Waiman Long
2013-07-05 15:02 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock Al Viro
2013-07-05 15:29 ` Waiman Long [this message]
2013-07-05 15:31 ` Waiman Long
2013-07-05 17:54 ` Al Viro
2013-07-05 18:56 ` Waiman Long
2013-07-05 20:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-08 14:22 ` Waiman Long
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