Re: [PATCH] vfs: Turn the unlinked inode counter into a percpu counter

[Andi Kleen]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >  	fsnotify_inode_delete(inode);
>> > -	if (!inode->i_nlink) {
>> > -		WARN_ON(atomic_long_read(&inode->i_sb->s_remove_count) == 0);
>> 
>> This is not mentioned in the description, but I guess it makes sense since
>> it'd be quite expensive.
>
> Yes. I guess we could still check the local counter. I can re-add that.

Actually it's not possible, because the original count could be on
another CPU.

-Andi

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