Thank you a lot for your time.
Answers and further questions follow:
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 11:46 +0530, SandeepKsinha wrote:
> What kind of tasks are you referring to? Are these some kind of
> administrative tasks?
> Or do you mean the I/O also as such tasks?
Yes, these tasks are I/O related.
>
> handle = ext3_journal_start (....);
> spin_lock_prefetch(&inode_lock);
>
> inode = alloc_inode(sb);
> if (inode) {
> spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> __inode_add_to_lists(sb, NULL, inode);
> inode->i_ino = 3;
> inode->i_state = 0;
> spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> }
>
This code you suggest comes from the VFS new_inode() function. If I want
to use it as it is in my ext3 patch I have to export the inode_lock
together with the alloc_inode() function, which is declared as static.
This doesn't sound good to me.
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