Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:18:16 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 29/52] fs: icache lock i_count |
| |
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 03:06:52PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > It is possible that locking can be reduced if some things are verified > and carefully shown not to matter. I just don't see the need yet and it > would make things overly complicated I think. Introducing any more > complexity will sink this patchset.
By overly complicated, I mean, for this patchset where locking is already been rewritten. It would then be no more complicated (actually far less) than equivalently trying to lift inode_lock from parts of the code where it is causing contention times.
| |