[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ocfs2: Remove a useless spinlock

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr
Wed Jul 20 13:32:07 UTC 2022


Le 20/07/2022 à 11:48, Joseph Qi a écrit :
> 
> These code are introduced long time ago...
> Refer to commit b4df6ed8db0c "[PATCH] ocfs2: fix orphan recovery
> deadlock", I guess it plays a role 'barrier' and make sure test node map
> is executed prior than signal orphan recovery thread. In other words, to
> serialize evict inode and orphan recovery.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joseph
> 

Ok, so just leave it as-is.

Should I resend the serie without this patch, or can 1/3 and 3/3 be 
applied as-is?

CJ



More information about the Ocfs2-devel mailing list