Re: [PATCH 04/18] fs: inode split IO and LRU lists

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:15:47AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> 
> The use of the same inode list structure (inode->i_list) for two
> different list constructs with different lifecycles and purposes
> makes it impossible to separate the locking of the different
> operations. Therefore, to enable the separation of the locking of
> the writeback and reclaim lists, split the inode->i_list into two
> separate lists dedicated to their specific tracking functions.

looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

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