Re: [PATCH v5 19/19] fs: handle inode->i_version more efficiently

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > From: Jeff Layton > > Since i_version is mostly treated as an opaque value, we can exploit that > fact to avoid incrementing it when no one is watching. With that change, > we can avoid incrementing the

Re: [PATCH v5 19/19] fs: handle inode->i_version more efficiently

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:10:59AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > From: Jeff Layton > > Since i_version is mostly treated as an opaque value, we can exploit that > fact to avoid incrementing it when no one is watching. With that change, > we can avoid incrementing the counter on

[PATCH v5 19/19] fs: handle inode->i_version more efficiently

From: Jeff Layton Since i_version is mostly treated as an opaque value, we can exploit that fact to avoid incrementing it when no one is watching. With that change, we can avoid incrementing the counter on writes, unless someone has queried for it since it was last