Hi Al, The following four patches implement the extra functionality you wanted on top of the inode lock breakup. They lift the i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode(), implements RCU freeing of inodes via SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, converts inode hash lookup operations to use RCU list walks. Comments are welcome. I'm undecided whether passing the bucket identifier along with the hash head is the best way to handle the hash-chain-being-jumped detection. It might be cleaner to just push the hash chain calculation all the way in. Most of the changes in this version are as a result of Eric Dumazet's initial review. Version 2: - split the inode slabcache config changes into a separate patch. - convert inode hash lists to use hlist_nulls variant to enable simple checking of whether RCU hash list traversals jumped chains. - recheck i_ino and i_sb after gaining i_lock during RCU lookups to ensure we've got a hold of the correct inode. - clear i_ino when destroying an inode to allow hash lookups to discover freed inodes without needing to lock the inode. - moved inode->i_lock initialisation to slab constructor so that it can be safely used during RCU traversals - introduced hlist_nulls_add_fake() and converted filesystems to use that -- 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
