[PATCH 1/4] xfs: reclaim inodes under a write lock

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Jan 11 04:18:36 CST 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:51:45AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Make the inode tree reclaim walk exclusive to avoid races with
> concurrent sync walkers and lookups. This is a version of
> a patch posted by Christoph Hellwig that avoids all the code
> duplication.

looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

FYI: I would rename xfs_reclaim_inode_now to just xfs_reclaim_inode,
but unless Alex wants to edit it let's just get the patch in for now.




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