On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:02:57PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I'd like to know about the status and plans of the inode scaling work.
>
> Aiming for 2.6.39 or 40 might be an idea.
It was ready for 2.6.38....
> I'd like to be able to see what patches are proposed to finish breaking
> inode_lock into its constituent sub classes, and we can go from there.
Already done. I pointed you at the tree a while back:
The following changes since commit c723fdab8aa728dc2bf0da6a0de8bb9c3f588d84:
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 (2011-01-25 14:23:54 +1000)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/xfsdev.git inode-scale
Dave Chinner (9):
fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock
fs: factor inode disposal
fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately
fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache
fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock
fs: Clean up documentation references to inode_lock
fs: pull inode->i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode
Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 +-
Documentation/filesystems/porting | 11 +-
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 +-
fs/block_dev.c | 4 +-
fs/buffer.c | 2 +-
fs/drop_caches.c | 18 +-
fs/fs-writeback.c | 138 ++++++++-----
fs/inode.c | 395 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
fs/internal.h | 7 +
fs/logfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/notify/inode_mark.c | 42 +++--
fs/notify/mark.c | 1 -
fs/notify/vfsmount_mark.c | 1 -
fs/ntfs/inode.c | 4 +-
fs/quota/dquot.c | 41 +++--
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
include/linux/quotaops.h | 2 +-
include/linux/writeback.h | 2 +-
mm/backing-dev.c | 8 +-
mm/filemap.c | 10 +-
mm/rmap.c | 7 +-
21 files changed, 409 insertions(+), 292 deletions(-)
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Dave Chinner
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