linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/8] exofs: remove lock/unlock super

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Message-ID: <502CF5A2.6000902@panasas.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:29:06 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	<dedekind1@...il.com>
CC:	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>, <bhalevy@...ian.com>,
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	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] exofs: remove lock/unlock super

On 08/16/2012 04:30 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 16:15 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> There are some optimizations I can do here, but lets for now just do
>> the sb->s_lock thing, and I might decide to completely revamp the
>> all thing later. 
> 
> OK. But I guess an exofs-specific mutex could be used instead. We do not
> have to depend on 'sb->s_lock'.
> 


sorry I meant sbi->s_lock. But I'm fine with the complete drop now

Thanks
Boaz

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