Shouldn't inode_lock be completely gone after these? also I hope moving to global locks really is just a step inbetween. Especially for writeback I doubt moving from inode_lock to another global lock makes a whole lot of difference - nevermind that it's not too smart to lock per-object lists with a global lock. -- 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