linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH take 2 01/28] VFS: introduce writeback_inodes

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Message-ID: <482951D0.3070004@yandex.ru>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 11:31:12 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...dex.ru>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>,
	Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH take 2 01/28] VFS: introduce writeback_inodes_sb()

Hi Christoph,

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I think sync_sb_inodes should just lock/unlock the inode_lock itself as
> per the patch from the reiser4 queue.  But before we export it I'd like
> to review what ubifs actually does with it.

Here is an updated UBIFS tarball for you:
	http://www.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs/ubifs-08-05-13.tar.bz2

Did you have chance to do the reviw? We would like to ask for merge at
2.6.27.

> Anyone care to submit a patch to just move the locking that we could
> put in ASAP?

Done, the patch is sitting in our UBIFS.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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