From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753839Ab0JMLZ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:25:57 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([134.117.69.58]:52786 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753730Ab0JMLZz (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:25:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:25:52 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Nick Piggin Cc: Dave Chinner , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/18] fs: icache remove inode_lock Message-ID: <20101013112552.GB16422@infradead.org> References: <1286515292-15882-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1286515292-15882-18-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20101013072058.GA3121@amd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101013072058.GA3121@amd> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 06:20:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Unfortunate timing that everybody is suddenly interested in the > scalability work :) People have been interested for a long time. It's just that we finally made forward progress to get parts of it shape for merging, which should have been done long time ago. > I might need a little more time than 2.6.37! But I'll try my best. > I don't think the patchset has suddenly become vastly more urgent > in the past month, so I think my approach of having it get a lot > of testing and go in Al's vfs tree for a while is best. It's always been quite urgent. Both inode_lock and dcache_lock contention have been hurting us for a while.