[RFC v4 Patch 0/4] fs/inode.c: optimization for inode lock usage

[Guo Chao]

This patchset optimizes several places which take the per inode spin lock.
They have not been fully tested yet, thus they are marked as RFC. 

I do limited tests after all patches applied: use two 'find' to traverse the 
filesystems and touch all files in parallel. This runs for several days in a 
virtual machine, no suspicious log appears. 

Guo Chao (4):
  fs/inode.c: do not take i_lock on newly allocated inode
  fs/inode.c: do not take i_lock in __(insert|remove)_inode_hash
  fs/inode.c: do not take i_lock when identify an inode
  fs/inode.c: always take i_lock before calling filesystem's test()
    method

 fs/inode.c |   32 +++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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