linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/18] fs: Clean up inode reference counting

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Message-ID: <20101013113320.GB19456@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:33:20 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] fs: Clean up inode reference counting

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:15:48AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> 
> Lots of filesystem code open codes the act of getting a reference to
> an inode.  Factor the open coded inode lock, increment, unlock into
> a function iref(). This removes most direct external references to
> the inode reference count.

Looks good,


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