linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/18] fs: icache remove inode

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Message-ID: <20101013112552.GB16422@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:25:52 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/18] fs: icache remove inode_lock

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 06:20:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Unfortunate timing that everybody is suddenly interested in the
> scalability work :)

People have been interested for a long time.  It's just that we finally
made forward progress to get parts of it shape for merging, which should
have been done long time ago.

> I might need a little more time than 2.6.37! But I'll try my best.
> I don't think the patchset has suddenly become vastly more urgent
> in the past month, so I think my approach of having it get a lot
> of testing and go in Al's vfs tree for a while is best.

It's always been quite urgent.  Both inode_lock and dcache_lock
contention have been hurting us for a while.

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