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
next prev parent 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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