linux-kernel - Re: nfsd stuckage

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Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:22:39 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, hch@....de,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	neilb@...e.de, snakebyte@....de
Subject: Re: nfsd stuckage

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:56:39AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> OK.  Mind if we just revert the whole commit for now?  With the
> double-lock regression is still there for ecryptfs exports, then I'd
> rather do a simple revert of the whole patch and not try to pick out
> just the fs/nfsd/vfs.c part.

Umm, exporting ecryptfs would previously take the lower i_mutex in
the ecryptfs fsync method and now does in vfs_fsync, there should
be no changed in behaviour.

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