[Patch 14/18] fs/logfs/segment.c

Jörn Engel joern at lazybastard.org
Mon Jun 4 05:07:11 EDT 2007


On Mon, 4 June 2007 00:21:41 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 03 June 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(compr_mutex);
> > +
> 
> It seems you define a static compre_mutex in both segment.c and in compr.c,
> and always lock them both at the same time. Is that a correct observation?
> Is it intentional, or an oversight on your side?

Lame coding on my side.  Seems to have gone lost in my notes, but this
mutex should get removed and the protected memory made per-superblock.
Unlike the zlib workspace it does not consume 300k, so there is no
excuse for it here.

Jörn

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