On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com> wrote: > > This sounds sensible. I'm sending this patch.
This looks much better. I think I'll apply this for 3.7 (since it's too late to do anything fancier), and then for 3.8 I will rip out all the locking entirely, because looking at the fs/buffer.c patch I wrote up, it's all totally unnecessary. Adding a ACCESS_ONCE() to the read of the i_blkbits value (when creating new buffers) simply makes the whole locking thing pointless. Just make the page lock protect the block size, and make it per-page, and we're done. No RCU grace period crap, no expedited mess, no nothing. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/