From: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>,
jack@suse.cz, tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFCv3 2/4] ext4: Add ext4_ilock & ext4_iunlock API
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 17:21:46 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191123115147.BC07652050@d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191120163500.GT20752@bombadil.infradead.org>
On 11/20/19 10:05 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 05:48:30PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
>> Not against your suggestion here.
>> But in kernel I do see a preference towards object followed by a verb.
>> At least in vfs I see functions like inode_lock()/unlock().
>>
>> Plus I would not deny that this naming is also inspired from
>> xfs_ilock()/iunlock API names.
>
> I see those names as being "classical Unix" heritage (eh, maybe SysV).
>
>> hmm, it was increasing the name of the macro if I do it that way.
>> But that's ok. Is below macro name better?
>>
>> #define EXT4_INODE_IOLOCK_EXCL (1 << 0)
>> #define EXT4_INODE_IOLOCK_SHARED (1 << 1)
>
> In particular, Linux tends to prefer read/write instead of
> shared/exclusive terminology. rwlocks, rwsems, rcu_read_lock, seqlocks.
> shared/exclusive is used by file locks. And XFS ;-)
>
> I agree with Jan; just leave them opencoded.
Sure.
>
> Probably worth adding inode_lock_downgrade() to fs.h instead of
> accessing i_rwsem directly.
>
Yup, make sense. but since this series is independent of that change,
let me add that as a separate patch after this series.
Thanks for the review!!
-ritesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-23 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-20 5:00 [RFCv3 0/4] ext4: Introducing ilock wrapper APIs & fixing i_rwsem scalablity prob. in DIO mixed-rw Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-20 5:00 ` [RFCv3 1/4] ext4: fix ext4_dax_read/write inode locking sequence for IOCB_NOWAIT Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-20 12:51 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-22 5:53 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-11-20 5:00 ` [RFCv3 2/4] ext4: Add ext4_ilock & ext4_iunlock API Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-20 11:23 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-11-20 12:18 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-20 16:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-23 11:51 ` Ritesh Harjani [this message]
2019-11-20 13:11 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-20 16:06 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-11-20 5:00 ` [RFCv3 3/4] ext4: start with shared iolock in case of DIO instead of excl. iolock Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-20 13:55 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-23 13:17 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-20 5:00 ` [RFCv3 4/4] ext4: Move to shared iolock even without dioread_nolock mount opt Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-20 14:32 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-26 10:51 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-26 12:45 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-11-29 17:23 ` Jan Kara
2019-11-29 17:18 ` Jan Kara
2019-12-03 11:54 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-12-03 12:39 ` Jan Kara
2019-12-03 13:10 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-12-03 13:48 ` Jan Kara
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