From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/26] ext4: Remove i_mutex from ext4_file_sync() Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 14:40:52 -0400 Message-ID: <20130604184052.GN3030@thunk.org> References: <1369993379-13017-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1369993379-13017-24-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:54822 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751195Ab3FDSky (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 14:40:54 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1369993379-13017-24-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:42:56AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > After removal of ext4_flush_unwritten_io() call, ext4_file_sync() > doesn't need i_mutex anymore. Forcing of transaction commits doesn't > need i_mutex as there's nothing inode specific in that code apart from > grabbing transaction ids from the inode. So remove the lock. > > Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Thanks, applied. - Ted