On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:58:01 +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > 1. predict the file was found > 2. explicitly compare the ref to "one", ignoring the dead zone > > The latter arguably improves the behavior to begin with. Suppose the > count turned bad -- the previously used ref routine is going to check > for it and return 0, indicating the count does not necessitate taking > ->f_pos_lock. But there very well may be several users. > > [...] Applied to the vfs-6.15.file branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. Patches in the vfs-6.15.file branch should appear in linux-next soon. Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it. It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated. Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase, trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch. tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git branch: vfs-6.15.file [1/1] fs: reduce work in fdget_pos() https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/5370b43e4bcf
