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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfs: replace i_pin_wait with a bit waitqueue
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:42:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111027164229.GA18033@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319663253.5239.75.camel@doink>

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:07:33PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > +	xfs_iunpin(ip);
> > +
> 
> This initially struck me as unsafe or something,
> assuming the inode was pinned.  But I was thinking
> of it more like an unlock request, which it is not.
> It's more like unplugging something so the inode
> will eventually get unpinned.  (Just thinking aloud
> here, nevermind me...)

After the next series I am about to post there will be just one caller of
xfs_iunpin left.  We can probably simply fold it at that point.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19 18:23 [PATCH 0/4] inode diet, part1 V2 Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-19 18:23 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: make i_flags and unsigned long Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-26 21:07   ` Alex Elder
2011-10-19 18:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: replace i_flock with a sleeping bitlock Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-26 21:07   ` Alex Elder
2011-10-19 18:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: replace i_pin_wait with a bit waitqueue Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-26 21:07   ` Alex Elder
2011-10-27 16:42     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-10-19 18:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: remove the unused dm_attrs structure Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-26 21:07   ` Alex Elder
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-18 20:13 [PATCH 0/4] inode diet, part1 Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-18 20:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: replace i_pin_wait with a bit waitqueue Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-19  0:50   ` Dave Chinner

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