On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 at 09:10, Dharmendra Singh <dharamhans87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch relaxes the exclusive lock for direct non-extending writes > only. File size extending writes might not need the lock either, > but we are not entirely sure if there is a risk to introduce any > kind of regression. Furthermore, benchmarking with fio does not > show a difference between patch versions that take on file size > extension a) an exclusive lock and b) a shared lock. I'm okay with this, but ISTR Bernd noted a real-life scenario where this is not sufficient. Maybe that should be mentioned in the patch header? Thanks, Miklos
