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From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET] epoll cleanups
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On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:36:08AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 	Locking and especilly control flow in fs/eventpoll.c is
> overcomplicated.  As the result, the code has been hard to follow
> and easy to fuck up while modifying.
> 
> 	The following series attempts to untangle it; there's more to be done
> there, but this should take care of some of the obfuscated bits.  It also
> reduces the memory footprint of that thing.
> 
> 	The series lives in
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git #experimental.epoll
> and it survives light local beating.  It really needs review and testing.
> I'll post the individual patches in followups (27 commits, trimming about 120
> lines out of fs/eventpoll.c).

PS: the posted series is on top of #work.epoll, which got merged into mainline
on Friday.  Forgot to mention that - my apologies.