Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:21:06 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] fs: break the file_list_lock for sb->s_files |
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:51:22PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Break the protection of sb->s_files out from under the global file_list_lock. > > > > sb->s_files is converted to a lock_list. furthermore to prevent the > > lock_list_head of getting too contended with concurrent add > > operations the add is buffered in per cpu filevecs. > > NACK. Please don't start using lockdep internals in core code.
what do you mean by that?
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