From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] BKL pushdown from do_new_mount() to the filesystems
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:46:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090930154625.GH1058@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254324604-20243-2-git-send-email-jblunck@suse.de>
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:30:02PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> Push down the big kernel lock to the filesystem implementations.
Missing from this email is an assertion:
"I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside
do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL
any more"
I haven't spotted anything yet, but there's a non-trivial amount of code
which was covered and now isn't. Someone more familiar with this code
than I am might be able to spot a new race.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 15:30 [RFC 0/3] Remove BKL from fs/ Jan Blunck
2009-09-30 15:30 ` [RFC 1/3] BKL pushdown from do_new_mount() to the filesystems Jan Blunck
2009-09-30 15:46 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2009-10-01 18:05 ` Jan Blunck
2009-10-08 15:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-10-31 12:26 ` Jan Blunck
2009-09-30 15:30 ` [RFC 2/3] BKL: remove from ext2 Jan Blunck
2009-10-01 18:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-31 12:24 ` Jan Blunck
2009-10-07 5:44 ` Andi Kleen
2009-09-30 15:30 ` [RFC 3/3] BKL: Remove default_llseek() Jan Blunck
2009-10-01 18:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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