[PATCH 3/4] xfs: replace i_pin_wait with a bit waitqueue
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Thu Oct 27 11:42:29 CDT 2011
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:07:33PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > + xfs_iunpin(ip);
> > +
>
> This initially struck me as unsafe or something,
> assuming the inode was pinned. But I was thinking
> of it more like an unlock request, which it is not.
> It's more like unplugging something so the inode
> will eventually get unpinned. (Just thinking aloud
> here, nevermind me...)
After the next series I am about to post there will be just one caller of
xfs_iunpin left. We can probably simply fold it at that point.
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