| | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 2010 03:35:33 -0400 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/18] fs: add a per-superblock lock for the inode list |
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:21:26PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> > > To allow removal of the inode_lock, we first need to protect the > superblock inode list with its own lock instead of using the > inode_lock. Add a lock to the superblock to protect this list and > nest the new lock inside the inode_lock around the list operations > it needs to protect. > > Based on a patch originally from Nick Piggin.
Looks good,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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