From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/17] fs: Factor inode hash operations into functions Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:06:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20101001060607.GG32349@infradead.org> References: <1285762729-17928-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1285762729-17928-12-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1285762729-17928-12-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:18:43PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Nick Piggin > > Before we can replace the inode hash locking with a more scalable > mechanism, we need to remove external users of the inode_hash_lock. > Make it private by adding a function __remove_inode_hash that can be > called by filesystems instead of open-coding their own inode hash > removal operations. I like the factoring, but this changelog is misleading. At least in this series no new user of __remove_inode_hash appears, and I'm not sure where it would appear anyway. Just making the function global without actually exporting it is not helping external filesystems anyway. For now it can simply be made static.