Re: [PATCH] xfs: Non-blocking inode locking in IO completion

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:13:12AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > The patch looks good to me - while I hate introducing random delay()
> > calls I don't really see a way around this. 
> 
> I thought about using queue_delayed_work(), but then the change
> became much bigger and has other side effects like increasing the
> size of the ioend structure.

Yes, now that the normal work struct and the delayed work struct are
different it would be a pain, agreed.