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

On 2026-08-11 20:29 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I hinted at that in one of my earlier replies that there were some
api quibbles some cycles ago on whether this direction was right or not.

> 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?

Yes, that would be acceptable.