Re: [PATCH v5 04/78] page cache: Use xa_lock

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Dec 26 2017 - 11:56:35 EST


On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 02:03:36PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Remove the address_space ->tree_lock and use the xa_lock newly added to
> the radix_tree_root. Rename the address_space ->page_tree to ->pages,
> since we don't really care that it's a tree. Take the opportunity to
> rearrange the elements of address_space to pack them better on 64-bit,
> and make the comments more useful.

The description sounds a lot like three commits ;)

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Kirill A. Shutemov