On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:14:23PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > We do not need the ilock for generic_write_checks and the i_size read, > which are protected by i_mutex and/or iolock, so reduce the ilock > critical section to just the call to xfs_zero_eof. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> That answers one of the open questions I had about my patch - whether we needed to hold the ilock at all over generic_write_checks(). I wasn't 100% sure, but this patch confirms my thinking on it. Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
