On 10/04/2010 11:22 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > This patchset fixes a number of problems with the existing CIFS code. It > eliminates the backreference to the filp from cifsFileInfo, allowing a > cifsFileInfo to outlive the filp that it was generated against. > > With that change, most of the closing of a filehandle on the server is > moved to cifsFileInfo_put. cifs_close is then changed to just put the > filehandle instead of trying to wait around for existing users to > finish with it. > > With this change, there is some further cleanup that can be done as > well. For instance, there's no real need to continually search for new > filehandles in cifs_writepages now that we hold a reference to one. I'll > hold back on that until I know how this set has been received. > Nice cleanups. Patches 1 to 9 looks correct to me. Reviewed-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
