Re: [PATCH 11/18] fs: Introduce per-bucket inode hash locks

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Although a sane locking macro and structure like I had, would perfectly
> > allow you to switch locks in a single place just the same.
> 
> And a locking macro/structure is better in self documenting than a
> helper function which was proposed by Christoph?

Independently of what data structure you folks agree on, we really do
_NOT_ want to have open coded bit_spin_*lock() anywhere in the code.

As I said before, aside of RT it's a basic requirement to switch bit
spinlocks to real ones for lockdep debugging.

Thanks,

	tglx
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