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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [2.6.27-rc4] XFS i_lock vs i_iolock...
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:55:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080825215532.GB28188@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1219647573.20732.28.camel@twins>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:59:33AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> How can you take two locks in one go? It seems to me you always need to
> take them one after another, and as soon as you do that, you have
> ordering constraints.

Yes, you would.  Except that in all other places we only have a single
iolock involved, so the ordering of the second iolock and second ilock
don't matter.

Because of that I think declaring that xfs_lock_two_inodes can just
lock on lock type at a time might be the better solution.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22 21:12 [2.6.27-rc4] XFS i_lock vs i_iolock Daniel J Blueman
2008-08-25  1:02 ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-25  2:12   ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-08-25  3:55     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-25  6:59       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-25 21:55         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-08-26  2:45           ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-26 19:35             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-26 20:13             ` Daniel J Blueman
2008-08-26 21:34               ` Daniel J Blueman
2008-08-26  1:55         ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-25  6:57   ` Peter Zijlstra

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