Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67;
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <20190917152140.GU2229799@magnolia> <CAHk-=wj9Zjb=NENJ6SViNiYiYi4LFX9WYqskZh4E_OzjijK1VA@mail.gmail.com>
 <20190919034502.GJ2229799@magnolia> <CAHk-=wgFRM=z6WS-QLThxL2T1AaoCQeZSoHzj8ak35uSePQVbA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgFRM=z6WS-QLThxL2T1AaoCQeZSoHzj8ak35uSePQVbA@mail.gmail.com>
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:04:44 -0700
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjS25dNe=zj8s8w0ppGoL33JQczQWdF406ubnkJHQ9izg@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.4
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>,
        cluster-devel <cluster-devel@redhat.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:03 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So inside of xfs, that "pop ioend from the list" model really may make
> perfect sense, and you could just do
>
>     static inline struct xfs_ioend *xfs_pop_ioend(struct list_head *head)

Note that as usual, my code in emails is written in the MUA, entirely
untested, and may be completely broken.

So take it just as a "maybe something like this works for you".

             Linus