Re: [PATCH 4/7] fs: break the file_list_lock for sb->s_files

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:51:22PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Break the protection of sb->s_files out from under the global file_list_lock.
> > 
> > sb->s_files is converted to a lock_list. furthermore to prevent the 
> > lock_list_head of getting too contended with concurrent add 
> > operations the add is buffered in per cpu filevecs.
> 
> NACK.  Please don't start using lockdep internals in core code.

what do you mean by that?

	Ingo
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