Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers

From	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers
Date	2016-01-24 00:40 +0100
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:09:44PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 09:44:35AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I'm not opposed to making such a locking change - I'm more
> > concerned about the fact I'm finding out about plans for such a
> > fundamental locking change from a pull request on the last day of a
> > merge window....
> 
> Look at the commit message (*and* pull request posting) of an earlier vfs.git
> pull request in the beginning of this window.  Or into the thread back in
> May when it had been first proposed (and pretty much the same patch had been
> generated and posted by Linus).  Changes needed for parallel ->lookup() had
> been discussed; it was a side branch of one of the RCU symlink threads and
> ISTR your own postings in it.

See http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2160034.html for the former (Jan 12,
two days into this window) and e.g. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/16/297 for
the latter.  And yes, you had been Cc'd on that thread back in May, including
the posting in question - even posted in other branches of that thread, both
before and after...

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[git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-23 16:00 +0100
  Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-01-23 23:40 +0100
    Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-01-23 23:50 +0100
      Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-24 00:20 +0100
        Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-24 00:40 +0100
        Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-01-24 02:00 +0100
          Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-24 02:50 +0100
            Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-01-24 08:10 +0100
              Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-24 08:50 +0100
      Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-01-24 00:50 +0100
        Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-01-24 01:30 +0100
          Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-24 02:30 +0100
            Re: [git pull] vfs.git - including i_mutex wrappers Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-01-24 08:20 +0100

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