On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Daire Byrne wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 15:59, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I think the path forward would be to update Neil's patch, add your > > performance data, send it to Al and linux-fsdevel, and see if we can get > > some idea what remains to be done to get this right. > > If Neil or anyone else is able to do that work, I'm happy to test and > provide the numbers. > > If I could update the patch myself, I would have happily contributed > but I lack the experience or knowledge. I'm great at identifying > problems, but not so hot at solving them :) > I've ported it to mainline without much trouble. I started some simple testing (parallel create/delete of the same file) and hit a bug quite easily. I fixed that (eventually) and then tried with more than 1 CPU, and hit another bug. But then it was quitting time. If I can get rid of all the easy to find bugs, I'll post it with a CC to you, and you can find some more for me! Thanks, NeilBrown
