[PATCH 09/11] fs: Use RCU lookups for inode cache

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Chinner
From: Dave Chinner Convert inode cache lookups to be protected by RCU locking rather than the global inode_hash_lock. This will improve scalability of inode lookup intensive workloads. Tested w/ ext4 and btrfs on concurrent fsmark/lookup/unlink workloads only. It removes the inode hash lock

[PATCH 09/11] fs: Use RCU lookups for inode cache

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Chinner
From: Dave Chinner dchin...@redhat.com Convert inode cache lookups to be protected by RCU locking rather than the global inode_hash_lock. This will improve scalability of inode lookup intensive workloads. Tested w/ ext4 and btrfs on concurrent fsmark/lookup/unlink workloads only. It removes the