On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:40:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > ext3/4 internal bits? Doesn't seem to be used for any journal related > activity but mostly as protection against resizing (the whole lock_super > usage in ext3/4 looks odd to me, interestingly there's none at all in > ext2. Maybe someone of the extN crowd should audit and get rid of it in > favour of a better fs-specific lock) Here are some patches which eliminate most of the lock_super() and unlock_super() calls from ext4. The last remaining calls are designed to proect against another CPU calling write_super(), which is the original intended use. If these patches work out, we can backport these patches to ext3. Comments and review appreciated; thanks!! - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
