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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>, Josh Aas <josha@sgi.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: bkl cleanup in do_sysctl
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:10:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092168602.920.8.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <411925FA.2000303@namesys.com>

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:46, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> >For example reiserfs uses the BKL for all write locking (!), but it
> >probably would not be too hard to fix, because you can just look at
> >another filesystem that has proper locking.
> >  
> >
> Wrong. ;-)  Balancing makes it way hard.  Use reiser4.  That has very 
> sophisticated locking that pushes the research envelope, if you want to 
> read code to learn about locking.....
> 

OK, I will give it a try.  Are any of the reiser3 latency issues
reported in the voluntary preemption thread addressed in reiser4?

Lee 


      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-10 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-10 16:58 bkl cleanup in do_sysctl Josh Aas
2004-08-10 17:28 ` Dave Hansen
2004-08-10 18:51   ` Lee Revell
2004-08-10 19:16     ` Roland Dreier
2004-08-10 19:21       ` Lee Revell
2004-08-10 19:46     ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-10 20:10       ` Lee Revell [this message]

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