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, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
