Re: [patch 29/52] fs: icache lock i_count

Nick Piggin
2010-07-03T05:18:22Z

On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 03:06:52PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> It is possible that locking can be reduced if some things are verified
> and carefully shown not to matter. I just don't see the need yet and it
> would make things overly complicated I think. Introducing any more
> complexity will sink this patchset.

By overly complicated, I mean, for this patchset where locking is
already been rewritten. It would then be no more complicated (actually
far less) than equivalently trying to lift inode_lock from parts of the
code where it is causing contention times.