| Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:31:22 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/18] fs: inode split IO and LRU lists |
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:15:47AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> > > The use of the same inode list structure (inode->i_list) for two > different list constructs with different lifecycles and purposes > makes it impossible to separate the locking of the different > operations. Therefore, to enable the separation of the locking of > the writeback and reclaim lists, split the inode->i_list into two > separate lists dedicated to their specific tracking functions.
looks good,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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