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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 19:54:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131103195452.GL13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFy3tAeLYL3_+PbeD15p6PGS-P7bs8fMUaRVSC0OCzvq6w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:25:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ugh.
> 
> This is too late since I want to do 3.12 today, and it seems to not be
> a regression - from what I can tell, the problem has always existed,
> no?
> 
> So I'll consider this post-3.12. However, it also strikes me that we
> should just clean things up, and make "i_ino" be an u64, and be able
> to do this without the vfs_getattr_nosec() games.

IIRC, at some point such an attempt has seriously hurt iget() on 32bit
boxen, so we ended up deciding not to go there.  Had been years ago,
though...

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-03 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-03  1:58 [git pull] fixes for 3.12-final Al Viro
2013-11-03 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-03 19:54   ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-11-03 23:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-04  0:53       ` Al Viro
2013-11-06 15:10         ` Al Viro
2013-11-13 14:43           ` Bruce Fields
2013-11-13 15:16             ` Bruce Fields
2013-11-18 16:32               ` Greg KH
2013-12-18 19:40                 ` Bruce Fields
2013-12-18 20:12                   ` Greg KH
2013-11-04 22:30       ` Bruce Fields

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