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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp" <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] v3 block subsystem refcounter conversions
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 06:51:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22e0adc4-3c02-e1f8-9017-213b50fdb8a8@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612B6FF1DA36@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 06/28/2017 05:58 AM, Reshetova, Elena wrote:
> 
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] v3 block subsystem refcounter conversions
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>>> On 06/27/2017 05:39 AM, Elena Reshetova wrote:
>>>> Changes in v3:
>>>> No changes in patches apart from trivial rebases, but now by
>>>> default refcount_t = atomic_t and uses all atomic standard operations
>>>> unless CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL is enabled. This is a compromize for the
>>>> systems that are critical on performance and cannot accept even
>>>> slight delay on the refcounter operations.
>>>
>>> Is that true in 4.12-rc, or is that true in a later release once
>>> Linus has pulled those changes in? If the latter, please resend
>>> this when those changes are in, thanks.
>>
>> It's in -next currently ("locking/refcount: Create unchecked atomic_t
>> implementation")
> 
> I would really like to start discussion on the these patches asap
> since it normally takes some adjustments etc. before they can be
> merged and we want many changes to go into next release round and not
> to miss the merge window. 

As far as I'm concerned, there's no need for a discussion on these. If
the other patches go in to make it as light weight as what we currently
have, then I'm fine with it. I can queue it up for post initial merge
submission.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-28 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-27 11:39 [PATCH 0/5] v3 block subsystem refcounter conversions Elena Reshetova
2017-06-27 11:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] block: convert bio.__bi_cnt from atomic_t to refcount_t Elena Reshetova
2017-06-27 11:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] block: convert blk_queue_tag.refcnt " Elena Reshetova
2017-06-27 11:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] block: convert blkcg_gq.refcnt " Elena Reshetova
2017-06-27 11:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] block: convert io_context.active_ref " Elena Reshetova
2017-06-27 11:40 ` [PATCH 5/5] block: convert bsg_device.ref_count " Elena Reshetova
2017-06-27 13:26 ` [PATCH 0/5] v3 block subsystem refcounter conversions Jens Axboe
2017-06-27 22:13   ` Kees Cook
2017-06-28 11:58     ` Reshetova, Elena
2017-06-28 12:51       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2017-06-29  7:38         ` Reshetova, Elena

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