Re: [PATCH v4 72/73] xfs: Convert mru cache to XArray

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:45:49PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> The dquot code is just going to have to live with the fact that there's
> additional locking going on that it doesn't need.  I'm open to getting
> rid of the irqsafety, but we can't give up the spinlock protection
> without giving up the RCU/lockdep analysis and the ability to move nodes.
> I don't suppose the dquot code can 

Oops, thought I'd finished writing this paragraph.

I don't suppose the dquot code can be restructured to use the xa_lock to
protect, say, qi_dquots?  I suspect not, since you wouldn't know which
of the three xarray locks to use.