On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:54:11PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Because in the first part of the inode lock series, it is breaking > locks in obvious small steps as possible, by adding global locks > protecting bits of what inode_lock used to. As seen by Dave's respin making it per-sb was just as easy as making it global. And it really is the logical synchronization domain. -- 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