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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 00/12] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock
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


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