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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Status of inode scaling work
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:10:11 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110125071011.GD28803@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinpZ2Qf1W2qocGhMNki_7b9G1xt=83b5QvwJXxb@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:02:57PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I'd like to know about the status and plans of the inode scaling work.
> 
> Aiming for 2.6.39 or 40 might be an idea.

It was ready for 2.6.38....

> I'd like to be able to see what patches are proposed to finish breaking
> inode_lock into its constituent sub classes, and we can go from there.

Already done. I pointed you at the tree a while back:

The following changes since commit c723fdab8aa728dc2bf0da6a0de8bb9c3f588d84:

  Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 (2011-01-25 14:23:54 +1000)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/xfsdev.git inode-scale

Dave Chinner (9):
      fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock
      fs: factor inode disposal
      fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately
      fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache
      fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
      fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
      fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock
      fs: Clean up documentation references to inode_lock
      fs: pull inode->i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode

 Documentation/filesystems/Locking |    2 +-
 Documentation/filesystems/porting |   11 +-
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt |    2 +-
 fs/block_dev.c                    |    4 +-
 fs/buffer.c                       |    2 +-
 fs/drop_caches.c                  |   18 +-
 fs/fs-writeback.c                 |  138 ++++++++-----
 fs/inode.c                        |  395 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 fs/internal.h                     |    7 +
 fs/logfs/inode.c                  |    2 +-
 fs/notify/inode_mark.c            |   42 +++--
 fs/notify/mark.c                  |    1 -
 fs/notify/vfsmount_mark.c         |    1 -
 fs/ntfs/inode.c                   |    4 +-
 fs/quota/dquot.c                  |   41 +++--
 include/linux/fs.h                |    2 +-
 include/linux/quotaops.h          |    2 +-
 include/linux/writeback.h         |    2 +-
 mm/backing-dev.c                  |    8 +-
 mm/filemap.c                      |   10 +-
 mm/rmap.c                         |    7 +-
 21 files changed, 409 insertions(+), 292 deletions(-)

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-25  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-14  9:02 Status of inode scaling work Nick Piggin
2011-01-25  7:10 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-01-27  0:40   ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-27  4:57     ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-27  5:11       ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-27  6:20         ` Dave Chinner

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