On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:46:38PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> If I_LOCK was not set it called yield(), effectively busy waiting for
> the removal of the inode from the hash. This change was introduced
> within "[PATCH] eliminate inode waitqueue hashtable" Changeset
> 1.1938.166.16 last october by wli.
> The solution is to restore the old behavior, of unconditionally
> waiting on the waitqueue. It doesn't matter if I_LOCK is not set
> initally, the task will go to sleep, and wake up when wake_up_inode()
> is called from generic_delete_inode() after removing the inode from
> the hash chain.
I was trying to preserve some (possibly misinterpreted) behavior but I
can't remember what anymore. Anyway, since it's misbehaving, nuke it.
-- wli
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