Re: [git pull] work.namei stuff (v2)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 9:40 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> NOTE: I'm less than thrilled by the "let's allow offloading pathwalks
> to helper threads" push, but LOOKUP_CACHED is useful on its own.

Well, that is getting fixed separately, so I think this is all good.
Still helper threads, but no longer kernel helper threads.

             Linus