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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de, Ariel Faigon <ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: help offered
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 23:59:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981127235918.A20200@loria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19981126085407.A2201@uni-koblenz.de>; from ralf@uni-koblenz.de on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 08:54:07AM -0600

On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 08:54:07AM -0600, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 06:28:37AM -0600, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> 
> > The big ones which still need a lot of work are
> > 
> >  - VFS and lower layers are protected by the big kernel lock.
> 
> Talked with Stephen Tweedie about this, it's considered a tough job to
> multithread that right.

Afaik, the main problem is avoiding deadlocks.  Tough job.

  OG.

  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-11-27 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-24 12:27 help offered Torbjörn Gannholm
1998-11-24 20:33 ` Ariel Faigon
1998-11-25 19:49   ` Olivier Galibert
1998-11-25 19:57     ` John E. Schimmel
1998-11-25 19:57       ` John E. Schimmel
1998-11-25 20:11     ` Jeffrey Watts
1998-11-25 20:43       ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 20:37     ` Ariel Faigon
1998-11-25 20:37       ` Ariel Faigon
1998-11-25 20:51       ` pjlahaie
1998-11-25 21:18         ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 21:18           ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 21:24         ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:24           ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:38           ` pjlahaie
1998-11-25 21:57             ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:57               ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 22:09               ` pjlahaie
1998-11-25 22:57                 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 22:57                   ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 22:08             ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 22:08               ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 22:13         ` Alex Kozlov
1998-11-25 22:15           ` pjlahaie
1998-11-25 22:25           ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 22:25             ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 21:46       ` Alan Cox
1998-11-25 21:04         ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:04           ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-26 12:28       ` ralf
     [not found]         ` <19981126085407.A2201@uni-koblenz.de>
1998-11-27 22:59           ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
1998-11-28  2:45             ` ralf
1998-11-26 22:17       ` Miguel de Icaza
1998-11-25 20:56     ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:12       ` Olivier Galibert

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