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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 16:11:58 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 01:01:56PM GMT, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 12:38 PM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 at 12:22, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe it is more straightforward, I can go with that, but it
> > > feels like a waste not to use the space in backing_file,
> > > so let me first try to convince you otherwise.
> >
> > Is it not a much bigger waste to allocate backing_file with kmalloc()
> > instead of kmem_cache_alloc()?
> 
> Yes, much bigger...
> 
> Christian is still moving things around wrt lifetime of file and
> backing_file, so I do not want to intervene in the file_table.c space.

My plan was to just snatch your series on top of things once it's ready.
Sorry, I didn't get around to take a look. It seems even just closing
your eyes for a weekend to a computer screen is like opening flood
gates...