Re: [PATCH 0/4] nfs: remove the fileid field from struct nfs_inode

On Tue, 2026-05-12 at 12:12 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> v7.1-rc1 contains patches to make inode->i_ino to be a u64. With this
> change, there is no need to keep a separate "fileid" field in struct
> nfs_inode.
> 
> This patchset eliminiates that field, and the inode number hashing
> machinery that is no longer needed. This shaves 8 bytes off of each
> nfs_inode.
> 
> Trond/Anna: please consider this for v7.2.
> 
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
> ---
> Jeff Layton (4):
>       nfs: store the full NFS fileid in inode->i_ino
>       nfs: remove nfs_compat_user_ino64() and deprecate enable_ino64
>       nfs: replace NFS_FILEID() and nfsi->fileid with inode->i_ino
>       nfs: remove fileid field from struct nfs_inode
> 
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  7 --
>  fs/nfs/dir.c                                    |  4 +-
>  fs/nfs/export.c                                 |  6 +-
>  fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c                  |  4 +-
>  fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c          |  6 +-
>  fs/nfs/inode.c                                  | 87 +++++++++----------------
>  fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c                               |  4 +-
>  fs/nfs/nfs4trace.h                              | 79 ++++++++++------------
>  fs/nfs/nfstrace.h                               | 84 ++++++++++++------------
>  fs/nfs/pagelist.c                               |  2 +-
>  fs/nfs/pnfs.c                                   |  2 +-
>  fs/nfs/unlink.c                                 |  2 +-
>  fs/nfs/write.c                                  |  2 +-
>  include/linux/nfs_fs.h                          | 25 -------
>  14 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 191 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 5d6919055dec134de3c40167a490f33c74c12581
> change-id: 20260512-nfsino-1f9a8ca2f3ed
> 
> Best regards,

Ping?

i just noticed that this never made v7.2. Maybe consider for v7.3?
-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>