On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
Erm... Andrea, could you tell why was -i_count left
non-atomic? Since iput() can be called without the big lock...
Comments?
It's not atomic because we have to synchronze the i_count changes with the
list changes (see __iget), so making it
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
Erm... Andrea, could you tell why was -i_count left
non-atomic? Since iput() can be called without the big lock...
Comments?
It's not atomic because we have to synchronze the i_count changes
