Re: [PATCH 15/18] fs: icache remove inode_lock

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 22:09:13 EST


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:15:58AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> All the functionality that the inode_lock protected has now been
> wrapped up in new independent locks and/or functionality. Hence the
> inode_lock does not serve a purpose any longer and hence can now be
> removed.
>
> Based on work originally done by Nick Piggin.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 +-
> Documentation/filesystems/porting | 10 +++-
> Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 2 +-

I forgot to update these files again. I will send another version of
this patch when I've done it.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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