I might sound like a broken record, but if you want to make forward progress with this split it into smaller series. What would be useful for example would be one series each to split the global inode_lock and dcache_lock, without introducing all the fancy new locking primitives, per-bucket locks and lru schemes for a start. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>