From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 3/3] ext4: Clarify the locking details in mballoc Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:53:30 -0400 Message-ID: <20090910035330.GB31907@mit.edu> References: <20090907093520.GA6079@skywalker.linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1252316294-10164-3-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: cmm@us.ibm.com, sandeen@redhat.com, adilger@sun.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Return-path: Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:59115 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752280AbZIJDxe (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:53:34 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1252316294-10164-3-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 03:08:14PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > We don't need to take the alloc_sem lock when we > are adding new group. mballoc won't see the new > group added untill we bump sbi->s_groups_count. > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V I've added your three resize/mballoc patches to the ext4 patch queue, thanks. - Ted