Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:15:51 -0500 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH vfs 1/2] lib: implement ptrset |
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Hello, Jan.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 05:37:07PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 13-11-14 17:09:27, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Implement set of pointers. Pointers can be added, deleted and > > iterated. It's currently implemented as a thin rbtree wrapper making > > addition and removal O(log N). A drawback is that iteration isn't RCU > > safe, which is okay for now. This will be used to remove > > inode->i_devices. > Tejun, I've noticed this somewhat late but I guess you haven't noticed my > patch series starting with a patch: > blockdev: Don't use i_devices inode field > > We can get rid of i_devices without tricks like this... I just need to > improve how char devices are handled.
Ooh, that sounds perfect to me. Please ignore these patches.
Thanks!
-- tejun
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