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xfs: remove i_iolock and use i_rwsem in the VFS inode instead

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This patch drops the XFS-own i_iolock and uses the VFS i_rwsem which
recently replaced i_mutex instead.  This means we only have to take
one lock instead of two in many fast path operations, and we can
also shrink the xfs_inode structure.  Thanks to the xfs_ilock family
there is very little churn, the only thing of note is that we need
to switch to use the lock_two_directory helper for taking the i_rwsem
on two inodes in a few places to make sure our lock order matches
the one used in the VFS.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Christoph Hellwig 2016-11-30 14:33:25 +11:00 • committed by Dave Chinner
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