From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:40:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1df2a2f8-f51d-4e02-9126-3e8245750466@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZbQzXfqA5vK5JXZS@casper.infradead.org>
On 2024-01-26 17:34, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 05:14:12PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> I would suggest this straightforward solution to this:
>>
>> a) define a EVENTFS_MAX_INODES (e.g. 4096 * 8),
>>
>> b) keep track of inode allocation in a bitmap (within a single page),
>>
>> c) disallow allocating more than "EVENTFS_MAX_INODES" in eventfs.
>
> ... reinventing the IDA?
Looking at include/linux/idr.h now that you mention it, yes,
you are absolutely right!
Thanks,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-26 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-26 20:02 [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers Steven Rostedt
2024-01-26 20:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-26 21:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-26 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-26 21:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-26 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-26 21:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-26 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-26 22:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-26 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-27 14:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28 14:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-26 22:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-01-26 22:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-26 22:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-01-26 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-29 16:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-01-29 18:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-26 22:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-01-26 22:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2024-01-26 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-26 23:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-01-26 23:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-26 23:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-27 9:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-01-27 21:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-28 20:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28 20:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-28 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-28 22:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-28 22:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28 21:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28 21:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28 21:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-28 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-28 22:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-28 22:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-28 23:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-28 23:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-29 0:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-29 1:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-29 1:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-29 2:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-29 3:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-29 4:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-29 2:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-29 6:44 ` Amir Goldstein
2024-01-29 9:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-01-27 15:26 ` David Laight
2024-01-27 20:01 ` Linus Torvalds
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