> > I think it should work without Artem's patch too, since prune_icache()
> > removes the inode from the hash chain at the same time (under
> > inode_lock) as changing it's state to I_FREEING. So the pruned inode
> > will never be seen by iget().
> >
> I suppose this doesn't mean that your patch fixes my problem (it mustn't
> I believe) ?
You are right. They are completely orthogonal, except the fact that
with your patch, the iget() clear_inode() collision will be more
frequent, and thus the yield() hack would trigger more often.
Miklos
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