Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269390AbTGJQ5I (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:57:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269424AbTGJQ5H (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:57:07 -0400 Received: from tmi.comex.ru ([217.10.33.92]:2988 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269417AbTGJQzC (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:55:02 -0400 X-Comment-To: Andrew Morton To: Andrew Morton Cc: Alex Tomas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] minor optimization for EXT3 From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:09:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20030710100102.32950703.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:01:02 -0700") Message-ID: <874r1ugkcn.fsf@gw.home.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) References: <87smpeigio.fsf@gw.home.net> <20030710042016.1b12113b.akpm@osdl.org> <87isqaiegy.fsf@gw.home.net> <20030710085155.40c78883.akpm@osdl.org> <877k6qgldo.fsf@gw.home.net> <20030710100102.32950703.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 19 >>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes: AM> Alex Tomas wrote: >> >> OK. fixed version: AM> Looks nice. Now, Andreas did mention a while back that the locking rework AM> added an additional complexity to this optimization. Perhaps he can remind AM> us of the details there? he meant than 2.5 don't use lock_sb() for inode allocation. this patch is safe from this point of view. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/