On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This sounds sensible. I'm sending this patch.
This looks much better.
I think I'll apply this for 3.7 (since it's too late to do anything
fancier), and then for 3.8 I will rip out all the locking entirely,
because looking at the fs/buffer.c patch I wrote up, it's all totally
unnecessary.
Adding a ACCESS_ONCE() to the read of the i_blkbits value (when
creating new buffers) simply makes the whole locking thing pointless.
Just make the page lock protect the block size, and make it per-page,
and we're done.
No RCU grace period crap, no expedited mess, no nothing.
Linus
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