Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:19:00 -0800 | From | "Michael Rubin" <> | Subject | Re: Possible fix for lockup in drop_caches |
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On Dec 22, 2007 2:06 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:13:22 +0000 richard <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Michael, might your convert-inode-lists-to-tree patches eliminate the need > for taking inode_lock in drop_pagecache_sb()? Probably not, as it uses an > rbtree. It would have been possible if it was using a radix-tree, I > suspect..
You are correct the new patch based on an rbtree will still require the lock.
mrubin
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