Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:15:43 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] inode->i_version rework for v4.16 |
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 07:05:48AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > > I want to make sure I understand what's actually broken here thoug. Is > it only broken when the two values are more than 2**63 apart, or is > there something else more fundamentally wrong here?
The other problem is that returning a s64 (or a u64) is extremely inefficient on a 32-bit platform. So in general, it's better to avoid returning a 64-bit type unless it's really necessary....
- Ted
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