Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] VFS: prepare for changes to directory locking

On Tue, 11 Aug 2026, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 01:11:55PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Jul 2026, NeilBrown wrote:
> > > Thanks a lot to Christian for the review.  I have address all this
> > > issues found.
> > 
> > Hi,
> >  has anyone had a chance to review?  Is there any change this could land
> >  in the next -rc1 ??
> 
> I haven't gotten around to it and we're kinda cutting it very close.
> I have reviewed prior versions so I'm not unfamiliar with it. If there
> are no real costs to pushing it to next cycle I'd prefer that.
> 

I would be disappointed to lose another cycle....
These were, I thought, ready to go in the previous cycle but they got
little or no review and Al only took one patch (the d_alloc_parallel
wait-queue change) for reasons that were not made clear.

I had hoped these few could land this time round so that I could post
patches to maintainers of various filesystems to start using the new
APIs.

If you would be happy to take those follow-on patches to various
filesystems together with these preparatory patches in the next cycle,
then I should still be able to get everything ready for the next step
without losing a cycle.  Would that be OK?

Thanks,
NeilBrown