Re: hugetlb locking bug.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Apr 15 2011 - 17:14:03 EST


On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:09:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Is there a sane reason they do their own magic, and thus need a copy of
> the logic, instead of using the generic code that already has it?

There is not need to use the inode hash for purely in-memory
filesystem. The dcache tells us if an entry already exists,
so there is no need to a lru list, hash or other overhead.

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