From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263602AbTHZL1T (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:27:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263604AbTHZL1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:27:18 -0400 Received: from angband.namesys.com ([212.16.7.85]:39040 "EHLO angband.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263602AbTHZL1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:27:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:27:16 +0400 From: Oleg Drokin To: Christoph Hellwig , marcelo@hera.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] backport iget_locked from 2.5/2.6 Message-ID: <20030826112716.GA14680@namesys.com> References: <20030825140714.GA17359@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030825140714.GA17359@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Helllo! On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:07:14PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Provide an iget variant without unlocking the inode and ->read_inode > call. This is needed for XFS and IIRC the reiserfs folks wanted it, > too. No. This patch is useless for our purposes. (and coda/nfs ). We wanted to get rid of a race where inode allocation and filling fs specific parts are done non-atomically. The patch below does not achieve this. We still fill inode private part outside of inode_lock locked region. Bye, Oleg