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

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On 29 March 2018 at 14:35, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

For all I know, Neil's latest plan is to get rhashtable_walk_peek
replaced and removed because it is unfixable. This patch removes the
one and only user.

Thanks,
Andreas