linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH -V2 3/3] ext4: Clarify the locking details in mballoc

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Date:	Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:53:30 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	cmm@...ibm.com, sandeen@...hat.com, adilger@....com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 3/3] ext4: Clarify the locking details in mballoc

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 03:08:14PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> We don't need to take the alloc_sem lock when we
> are adding new group. mballoc won't see the new
> group added untill we bump sbi->s_groups_count.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

I've added your three resize/mballoc patches to the ext4 patch queue,
thanks.

					- Ted
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