On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:24:50AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > It'd be very nice if the silly renamed inodes (with silly_count > 1) were moved > to a different list in the first pass, under the inode_lock, and then waited on > until silly_count <= 1 in a second pass only on the filtered list. This will > provide you with O(1). It's absolutely pointless, starting with any kind of searching for inodes, etc. If you want fs shutdown _not_ to happen until async activity of that kind is over, don't reinvent the sodding wheels, just tell VFS that you are holding an active reference to superblock. End of story. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html