| Date | Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:02:27 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/17] fs: icache protect inode state |
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:18:40PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> > > Before removing the inode_lock, we need to protect the inode list > operations with the inode->i_lock. This ensures that all inode state > changes are serialised regardless of the fact that the lists they > are moving around might be protected by different locks. Hence we > can safely protect an inode in transit from one list to another > without needing to hold all the list locks at the same time.
The subject does not seem to match the patch description and content.
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