On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:15:55AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > We currently protect the per-inode state flags with the inode_lock. > Using a global lock to protect per-object state is overkill when we > coul duse a per-inode lock to protect the state. Use the > inode->i_lock for this, and wrap all the state changes and checks > with the inode->i_lock. > > Based on work originally written by Nick Piggin. Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> -- 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