linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/18] fs: Introduce per-bucket inode hash locks

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Date:	Fri, 8 Oct 2010 03:33:06 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] fs: Introduce per-bucket inode hash locks

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:21:25PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
> 
> Protect the inod hash with a single lock is not scalable.  Convert

s/inod/inode/

>  	p = &root->inode_tree.rb_node;
>  	parent = NULL;
>  
> -	if (hlist_unhashed(&inode->i_hash))
> +	if (hlist_bl_unhashed(&inode->i_hash))

Maybe introduce an inode_unhashed helper for this check which we're
doing in quite a lot of places?

Otherwise looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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