Re: [PATCH] Separate target visibility from reaped state information

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On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 18:17 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 08:11:29PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > I am concerned about queuing something as a stable fix if it is
> > just
> > masking a fundamental underlying problem.
> 
> It's not masking a fundamental problem.  It fixes the target
> state so that we can mark a starget as being under deletion
> before we have to drop the list protecting the target list
> iteration.  Independ of any any other scanning changes it is the
> right thing to do.

It introduces a bug while doing so ... that's a problem.

James


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