From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Coda: remove BKL
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:08:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010211108.41320.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287606184-26889-1-git-send-email-jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Jan Harkes wrote:
> The following three patches remove the big kernel lock from the Coda
> file system kernel module. We initially add a spinlock to protect the
> Coda-specific inode data. After this we can push the BKL all the way
> down to where the requests are queued for the userspace Coda cache
> manager process and finally we replace the remaining BKL uses with a
> mutex that protects the upcall queues.
Very nice!
Are you pushing this to Linus or should I take care of it along with
the other file systems?
This patch is larger than most of the others, but I can add it to
my bkl/vfs tree if you like.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 20:23 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Coda: remove BKL Jan Harkes
2010-10-20 20:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Coda: add spin lock to protect accesses to struct coda_inode_info Jan Harkes
2010-10-20 20:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] Coda: push BKL regions into coda_upcall() Jan Harkes
2010-10-20 20:23 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Coda: replace BKL with mutex Jan Harkes
2010-10-21 9:08 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-10-21 15:14 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Coda: remove BKL Jan Harkes
2010-10-21 15:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
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