From: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: bzzz@tmi.comex.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2's readdir
Date: 15 Mar 2003 19:22:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wuj0fvls.fsf@lexa.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030315030322.792fa598.akpm@digeo.com>
>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:
AM> hm, no. lseek is using the directory's i_sem now, and readdir
AM> runs under that too. So we should be able to remove
AM> lock_kernel() from the readdir implementation of all filesystems
AM> which are using generic_file_llseek().
looks like only coda and ntfs use generic_file_llseek(). other use
default_llseek(). what's the reason do not use generic_file_llseek().
historical only? or not?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-15 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-15 10:13 [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2's readdir Alex Tomas
2003-03-15 10:36 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-15 11:03 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-15 16:22 ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2003-03-15 20:11 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-15 20:09 ` Alex Tomas
2003-03-15 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-15 20:19 ` Alex Tomas
2003-03-15 16:31 ` Robert Love
[not found] <m3vfyluedb.fsf@lexa.home.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20030315023614.3e28e67b.akpm@digeo.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-03-15 21:55 ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-15 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
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