On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 17:42 +0100, Lino Sanfilippo wrote: > The main goal of these patches is to change the locking order to > > group->mark_lock > inode->i_lock > mark->lock There was a LOT of thought that went into the object locking and lifetime to make sure it was safe, but I agree it is, ummm, complex. I'll look at these patches but offhand I seem to recall that (by definition) inode->i_lock was always supposed to be the smallest lock ever held. I added Al a VFS guy, who might veto these patches just on that alone...... -Eric -- 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
