Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2020 09:48:31 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v2 5/7] locking/percpu-rwsem: Remove the embedded rwsem |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 04:09:33PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Can you split the removal of the non-owned resem support into a separate > > patch? I still think keeping this one and moving aio to that scheme is > > a better idea than the current ad-hoc locking scheme that has all kinds > > of issues. > > That's basically 2 lines of code and a comment, surely we can ressurect > that if/when it's needed again?
Sure, I could. But then you'd still need to update your commit log for this patch explaining why it includes unrelated changes to a different subsystem. By splitting it you also document your changes much better.
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