All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:20:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C856EC4.5090505@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203060023.g260NIB09974@localhost.localdomain> <E16iPdM-0004x1-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020306004432.GC5538@matchmail.com>

Mike Fedyk wrote:
 > Also, there seems to be a plan already in progress to do this on
 > 2.5.  BLK has been moved around in several filesystems to ease
 > transition to another lock.

As I indicated elsewhere in the thread, this _is_ a 2.5 backport
chosen because of the tremendous impact on BKL contention.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-06  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-06  0:23 [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2 Dave Hansen
2002-03-06  0:40 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-06  0:51   ` Dave Hansen
2002-03-06  1:19     ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-06  6:57   ` Dave Hansen
2002-03-06  0:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06  1:17   ` Dave Hansen
     [not found]   ` <20020306004432.GC5538@matchmail.com>
2002-03-06  1:20     ` Dave Hansen [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=3C856EC4.5090505@us.ibm.com \
    --to=haveblue@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mfedyk@matchmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.