Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] gfs2: Stop using rhashtable_walk_peek

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Mar 29 2018 - 08:36:00 EST


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 02:06:10PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Here's a second version of the patch (now a patch set) to eliminate
> rhashtable_walk_peek in gfs2.
>
> The first patch introduces lockref_put_not_zero, the inverse of
> lockref_get_not_zero.
>
> The second patch eliminates rhashtable_walk_peek in gfs2. In
> gfs2_glock_iter_next, the new lockref function from patch one is used to
> drop a lockref count as long as the count doesn't drop to zero. This is
> almost always the case; if there is a risk of dropping the last
> reference, we must defer that to a work queue because dropping the last
> reference may sleep.

In light of Neil's latest patch, do we still need this?

Thanks,
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