Re: [LKP] [lkp] [dcache_{readdir, dir_lseek}() users] 4e82901cd6: reaim.jobs_per_min -49.1% regression

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Jun 26 2016 - 13:13:40 EST


On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 2:50 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Al, what's the status here? This made it on my 4.7 regressions report
> due to the "regression" keyword in the subject.

I don't think the tmpfs locking is going to get changed for 4.7. This
issue will likely only show up for some very specific microbenchmarks,
and the lockless next_positive one is likely too invasive for this
stage. So the problem is fixable, and not serious enough to worry
about for 4.7.

Linus