Re: [PATCH] sync_sb_inodes cleanup

[Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>]

Hello

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 19:35, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 19:00 +0400, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
> 
> > This patch makes generic_sync_sb_inodes to spin lock itself.
> > Please, apply this patch. It helps reiser4 to get rid of some oddities.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >  {
> >         const unsigned long start = jiffies;    /* livelock avoidance */
> >  
> > +       spin_lock(&inode_lock);
> 
> Looking at what jiffies is used for, it is probably is not a big deal,
> but you should move the assignment of start to after acquiring the lock,
> as that could take quite some time.
> 

I did not want to un-const start. It would be required for the
assignment move, wouldn't it?

> 	Robert Love
> 
> 
> 

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