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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2010-10-20 20:49:30 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-10-25 21:26:15 -0400
commit7ccf19a8042e343f8159f8a5fdd6a9422aa90c78 (patch)
tree9a69aaad6eb8992cae06f44dfea8c1d94f2a7f99 /include/linux/fs.h
parenta5491e0c7bb7387e3e6ff9994d6dc2efc78af56c (diff)
fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
The use of the same inode list structure (inode->i_list) for two different list constructs with different lifecycles and purposes makes it impossible to separate the locking of the different operations. Therefore, to enable the separation of the locking of the writeback and reclaim lists, split the inode->i_list into two separate lists dedicated to their specific tracking functions. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d58059944801..f300a6508818 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -723,7 +723,8 @@ struct posix_acl;
723 723
724struct inode { 724struct inode {
725 struct hlist_node i_hash; 725 struct hlist_node i_hash;
726 struct list_head i_list; /* backing dev IO list */ 726 struct list_head i_wb_list; /* backing dev IO list */
727 struct list_head i_lru; /* inode LRU list */
727 struct list_head i_sb_list; 728 struct list_head i_sb_list;
728 struct list_head i_dentry; 729 struct list_head i_dentry;
729 unsigned long i_ino; 730 unsigned long i_ino;