Re: (subset) [PATCH 20/32] vfs: factor out inode hash head calculation

[Christian Brauner]

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 05:35:02PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 11:44:03PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 08:53:22AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > Hi Christian - I suspect you should pull the latest version of these
> > > patches from:
> > > 
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs.git vfs-scale
> > > 
> > > The commit messages are more recent and complete, and I've been
> > > testing the branch in all my test kernels since 6.4-rc1 without
> > > issues.
> > 
> > Can you please send the series to linux-fsdevel for review?
> 
> When it gets back to the top of my priority pile. Last time I sent
> it there was zero interest in reviewing it from fs/vfs developers
> but it attracted lots of obnoxious shouting from some RTPREEMPT
> people about using bit locks. If there's interest in getting it

I think there is given that it seems to have nice perf gains.

> merged, then I can add it to my backlog of stuff to do...
> 
> As it is, I'm buried layers deep right now, so I really have no
> bandwidth to deal with this in the foreseeable future. The code is
> there, it works just fine, if you want to push it through the
> process of getting it merged, you're more than welcome to do so.

I'm here to help get more review done and pick stuff up. I won't be able
to do it without additional reviewers such as Christoph helping of
course as this isn't a one-man show.

Let's see if we can get this reviewed. If you have the bandwith to send
it to fsdevel that'd be great. If it takes you a while to get back to it
then that's fine too.