Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/30] fs: inode->i_version rework and optimization

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Fri May 12 2017 - 11:57:10 EST


On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 07:01:25AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> This looks reasonable to me (modulo Jan's comment about casting tv_sec
> to u64).
>
> To be clear, I think this is mostly orthogonal to the changes that I was
> originally proposing, right? I think we can still benefit from only
> bumping and storing i_version values after they've been queried.

Definitely, yes.

--b.