Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] vfs: Use dlock list for superblock's inode list

[Waiman Long]

On 09/17/2018 10:15 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Waiman Long wrote:
>
>> @@ -927,8 +921,6 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>> {
>>     struct inode *inode;
>>
>> -    spin_lock_prefetch(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
>
> I think we can get rid of the spin_lock_prefetch call altogether as
> this is the
> only user left afaict.

You are right. I will send out an additional patch to get rid of the
spin_lock_prefetch() function.

Cheers,
Longman