Re: [PATCH 03/17] fs: icache lock inode hash

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:18:35PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently the inode hash lists are protected by the inode_lock. To
> allow removal of the inode_lock, we need to protect the inode hash
> table lists with a new lock. Nest the new inode_hash_lock inside the
> inode_lock to protect the hash lists.

There is no reason to make inode_hash_lock global, it's only used inside
inode.c

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