Hi Al, The following patches break the inode LRU operations and the first half of iput_final() out from under the inode_lock. The patches should apply to your current merge-stem tree. Version 2: - make i_state checks/__iget() atomic under inode->i_lock - merge dispose_one_inode() into evict() - move inode hash removal after ->evict_inode call. - always take the inode_lru_lock() when checking whether the inode is on the lru or not. -- 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