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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, steved@redhat.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no,
	aviro@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-cachefs@redhat.com, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/5] Optimise d_find_alias()
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:00:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27600.1141390810@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060303034552.5fcedc49.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> How can we get away without a barrier?

Is this what you're thinking of:

	struct dentry * d_find_alias(struct inode *inode)
	{
		struct dentry *de = NULL;

		smp_rb();
		if (!list_empty(&inode->i_dentry)) {
			spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
			de = __d_find_alias(inode, 0);
			spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
		}
		return de;
	}


David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-03 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-02 21:33 [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing [try #3] David Howells
2006-03-02 21:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount " David Howells
2006-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 2/5] NFS: Apply mount root dentry override to filesystems " David Howells
2006-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 3/5] NFS: Abstract out namespace initialisation " David Howells
2006-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 4/5] NFS: Add dentry materialisation op " David Howells
2006-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 5/5] NFS: Unify NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server " David Howells
2006-03-03  3:22   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-02 22:07 ` [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing " Linus Torvalds
2006-03-03  9:59 ` [PATCH 5/5] NFS: Unify NFS superblocks per-protocol per-server [try #3a] David Howells
2006-03-03 10:49 ` [PATCH 6/5] 9p: Fix error handling on superblock alloc failure David Howells
2006-03-03 11:30 ` [PATCH 7/5] Optimise d_find_alias() David Howells
2006-03-03 11:45   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 14:48     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-03 15:46     ` Al Viro
2006-03-03 13:00   ` David Howells [this message]
2006-03-03 15:43     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-03 13:01   ` David Howells
2006-03-03 13:38 ` [PATCH 7/5] Optimise d_find_alias() [try #2] David Howells
2006-03-04 12:16 ` [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing [try #3] Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 11:55 ` David Howells
2006-03-06 13:57   ` Jörn Engel
2006-03-06 15:25   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #4] David Howells
2006-03-06 14:59 ` [PATCH 1+2/5] NFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount [try #5] David Howells
2006-03-07 11:08 ` [PATCH] Fix multiple blockdev-based filesystem mounts David Howells
2006-03-07 11:35   ` Alexander Viro
2006-03-07 13:23   ` David Howells
2006-05-23 16:53 ` [PATCH 0/5] Permit NFS superblock sharing [try #3] David Howells

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