Re: [PATCH 12/13] loop: remove lo_refcount and avoid lo_mutex in ->open / ->release
- To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
- Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>, "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, nbd@other.debian.org
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] loop: remove lo_refcount and avoid lo_mutex in ->open / ->release
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:23:31 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 07:54:15PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > But for now I'd really prefer to stop moving the goalpost further and
> > further.
>
> Then, why not kill this code?
I think we should eventually do that, and I've indeed tested a patch
that is only cosmetically different. I wasn't really convinced we
should do it in this series, but if there is consensus that we should
do it now I can respin the series with a patch like this included.
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