[Gluster-devel] [RFC] various lists on inode table usage?

[Changwei Ge]

Hi,

I am recently working on optimizing inode searching/getting/putting 
concurrency. Before the experiment/trial goes, I would like to get fully 
understand what the usage of several lists of inode table, especially 
for 'invalidate list', since the major difficulty making inode searching 
run concurrently is that We have to move inode from one list to the 
other and modify some attributes against inode table.
After reading corresponding code, it seems that inode table 'invalidate 
list' is only retrieved when destroying inode table(inode_table_destroy).

Can someone help explain the list usage/purpose of 'invalidate list'?


Thanks,
Changwei