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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, dedekind@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] __wait_on_freeing_inode fix
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 07:19:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050511141910.GE9304@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DU1Hy-00060Q-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:46:38PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> If I_LOCK was not set it called yield(), effectively busy waiting for
> the removal of the inode from the hash.  This change was introduced
> within "[PATCH] eliminate inode waitqueue hashtable" Changeset
> 1.1938.166.16 last october by wli.
> The solution is to restore the old behavior, of unconditionally
> waiting on the waitqueue.  It doesn't matter if I_LOCK is not set
> initally, the task will go to sleep, and wake up when wake_up_inode()
> is called from generic_delete_inode() after removing the inode from
> the hash chain.

I was trying to preserve some (possibly misinterpreted) behavior but I
can't remember what anymore. Anyway, since it's misbehaving, nuke it.


-- wli

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-11 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-06 11:46 [PATCH] __wait_on_freeing_inode fix Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-06 12:14 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-05-06 12:19   ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-06 13:33 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-06 13:38   ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-06 13:44     ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-05-06 13:49       ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-05-06 13:52     ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-06 13:52 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-05-11 14:19 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]

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