linux-kernel - Re: [patch 08/14] fs: scale inode alias list

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:18:07 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	npiggin@...e.de
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 08/14] fs: scale inode alias list

npiggin@...e.de writes:

> Add a new lock, dcache_inode_lock, to protect the inode's i_dentry list
> from concurrent modification. d_alias is also protected by d_lock.

This would seem to ask for per object lock? Why not put it into the inode?

-Andi

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