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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:25:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101027052520.GF19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288154866.2652.84.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:47:46AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 ?? 05:40 +0100, Al Viro a ??crit :
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:23:04PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > Now that inode state changes are protected by the inode->i_lock and
> > > the inode LRU manipulations by the inode_lru_lock, we can remove the
> > > inode_lock from prune_icache and the initial part of iput_final().
> > > 
> > > instead of using the inode_lock to protect the inode during
> > > iput_final, use the inode->i_lock instead. This protects the inode
> > > against new references being taken while we change the inode state
> > > to I_FREEING, as well as preventing prune_icache from grabbing the
> > > inode while we are manipulating it. Hence we no longer need the
> > > i???ode_lock in iput_final prior to setting I_FREEING on the inode.
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > ... the hell?  There's more such damage elsewhere in the thread; what's
> > going on?
> > --
> 
> Maybe its on your side, no problem here on my copy.

"i\xe1\xb9\x89ode_lock", i.e. 'n' turned into U+1E49, aka "latin small letter
n with line below".  I doubt that it's MTA braindamage.

In the first patch there's 

- * invalidate_inodes    - attempt to free all inodes on a
+ * nvalidate_inodes    - attempt to free all inodes on a

and I _really_ doubt that anything in mail system is capable of something
that elaborate.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-27  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-27  4:23 fs: break out inode LRU operations from node_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-27  4:23 ` [PATCH 1/4] fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-27  7:07   ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-10-27  8:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-27  4:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs: factor inode disposal Dave Chinner
2010-10-27  7:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-27  9:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-27  4:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately Dave Chinner
2010-10-27  7:08   ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-10-27  9:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-27 22:24     ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-28 10:25       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-28 10:58         ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-27  4:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache Dave Chinner
2010-10-27  4:40   ` Al Viro
2010-10-27  4:47     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27  5:25       ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-10-27  5:50         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27  6:01           ` Al Viro
2010-10-27  6:09           ` Davidlohr Bueso
2010-10-27  7:11           ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-10-27  9:12     ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-27 23:02 fs: break out inode LRU operations from inode_lock V2 Dave Chinner
2010-10-27 23:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache Dave Chinner
2010-10-28 12:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-28 21:41     ` Dave Chinner

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