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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
To: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] fs: Reduce inode I_FREEING and factor inode disposal
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:54:15 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019035415.GA3256@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1010181419200.15249@cobra.newdream.net>

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 02:27:02PM -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
> I took a look at this code and was able to remove the i_lock -> 
> dcache_lock nesting.  To be honest, I'm not sure why I did it that way in 
> the first place.  The only point (now) where i_lock is used/needed is 
> while checking the ceph inode flags, and that's done without holding 
> dcache_lock (presumably soon to be d_lock).

Great, it was a bit nasty of ceph to add that in without documenting
it, but I guess it got past reviewers so it was up to them to ack it
or point it out.

I think we should probably enforce a rule that dcache_lock not nest
inside i_lock :) Anybody wanting to do that in future had better have
a really good reason.

 
> The patch is 622386be in the for-next branch of
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client.git
> 
> Anyway, hope this helps!  

It does, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-16  8:13 Inode Lock Scalability V4 Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:13 ` [PATCH 01/19] fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  9:30   ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 16:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16  8:13 ` [PATCH 02/19] kernel: add bl_list Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  9:51   ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 16:32     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16  8:13 ` [PATCH 03/19] fs: Convert nr_inodes and nr_unused to per-cpu counters Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:29   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-16 10:04     ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-16 10:27       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-16 17:26         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-17  1:09           ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-17  1:12             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-17  2:16               ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:13 ` [PATCH 04/19] fs: Implement lazy LRU updates for inodes Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  9:29   ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 16:59     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 17:29       ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-16 17:34         ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17  0:47           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-17  0:47         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-17  2:09           ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17  1:53       ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:13 ` [PATCH 05/19] fs: inode split IO and LRU lists Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 06/19] fs: Clean up inode reference counting Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 07/19] exofs: use iput() for inode reference count decrements Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 08/19] fs: rework icount to be a locked variable Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 09/19] fs: Factor inode hash operations into functions Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 10/19] fs: Introduce per-bucket inode hash locks Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 11/19] fs: add a per-superblock lock for the inode list Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 12/19] fs: split locking of inode writeback and LRU lists Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 13/19] fs: Protect inode->i_state with the inode->i_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 14/19] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 15/19] fs: Make iunique independent of inode_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 16/19] fs: icache remove inode_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 17/19] fs: Reduce inode I_FREEING and factor inode disposal Dave Chinner
2010-10-17  1:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-17  2:49     ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17  4:13       ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-17  4:35         ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17  5:13           ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17  6:52             ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-17  7:05               ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17 23:39                 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-18 21:27               ` Sage Weil
2010-10-19  3:54                 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 18/19] fs: split __inode_add_to_list Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  8:14 ` [PATCH 19/19] fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode Dave Chinner
2010-10-16  9:09   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-16 16:35     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-18  9:11       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-18 14:48         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 17:55 ` Inode Lock Scalability V4 Nick Piggin
2010-10-17  2:47   ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-17  2:55     ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17  2:57       ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-17  6:10       ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-17  6:34         ` Nick Piggin

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