From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Chinner Subject: [PATCH 0/3] fs: peel back the inode_lock some more Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:42:38 +1100 Message-ID: <1288266161-28897-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi Al, These as the first versions of the patches that remove the inode lock from the writeback lists, superblock inode lists and the inode hash table. I haven't polished them at all, but they appear to work ok so I thought I'd send them out for comments before I went to bed... With these patches the inode_lock pretty much disappears from my lock_stat profiles, with the writeback list lock being the most contended of the replacements on an 8-way machine. Cheers, Dave.