From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fs: peel back the inode_lock some more Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:00:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20101028120016.GA4546@infradead.org> References: <1288266161-28897-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:41331 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757177Ab0J1MAT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:00:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1288266161-28897-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Shouldn't inode_lock be completely gone after these? also I hope moving to global locks really is just a step inbetween. Especially for writeback I doubt moving from inode_lock to another global lock makes a whole lot of difference - nevermind that it's not too smart to lock per-object lists with a global lock.