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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fs/locks.c BKL removal
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 18:40:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDDC7F0.6010407@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CDC4037.8040104@us.ibm.com> <20020511204551.M32414@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Ick... I'd really like to see one spinlock protecting all activity in this
> area.  And obviously not the magic BKL ;-)

Do you really think a single lock is the way to go?  Maybe I'm just 
paranoid, but somebody is going to run into a locking bottleneck here 
eventually.  I also just don't like global locks.

I'll ask our benchmarking team if they have test suites for file 
locking.  I crossing my fingers.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-12  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-10 21:48 fs/locks.c BKL removal Dave Hansen
2002-05-10 22:13 ` Dave Hansen
2002-05-10 23:17   ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-11 19:48     ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-05-11 19:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-05-12  1:40   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2002-05-12  2:07     ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]   ` <20020513171729.4165.qmail@thales.mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
2002-05-13 19:43     ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-05-13 23:15       ` Christian Ehrhardt
2002-05-13 23:18       ` Andreas Dilger
2002-05-14  9:02         ` Christian Ehrhardt

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