Messages in this thread | | | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2017 07:41:11 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: grab the lock instead of blocking in __fd_install during resizing |
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On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> wrote: > Explicit locking in the fallback case provides a safe state of the > table. Getting rid of blocking semantics makes __fd_install usable > again in non-sleepable contexts, which easies backporting efforts. > > There is a side effect of slightly nicer assembly for the common case > as might_sleep can now be removed. > > Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> > --- > Documentation/filesystems/porting | 4 ---- > fs/file.c | 11 +++++++---- > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Nice change !
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
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