Re: [PATCH 00/11] nfsd: deny mode handling overhaul

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 07:52:50AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 04:42:44 -0700
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:42:27AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > Yes, thanks to both of you. The review and merging are much
> > > appreciated. Only 89 patches to go once these go in!
> > 
> > Might help if we can get them into slighly smaller reviewable chunks,
> > e.g. the next batch might be the stateid refcounting and everything
> > around it, deferring the various client and session related bits and the
> > fault injection changes for now.
> 
> That should be doable as long as we're ok with adding in superfluous
> spinlocking until the client_mutex is removed.

It means that an attempt to bisect any race introduced by the series
will land on the one patch that drops the state lock.

But maybe that's the best we can do.

--b.

> I'll work on breaking
> out the next set. It might be a few days as I'm still looking at
> whether it's feasible to not alter the sc_type like the code does today.