From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:32:49 -0500 Message-ID: <20090122203248.GA20159@infradead.org> References: <20090115153211.663df310@bike.lwn.net> <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, andi-Vw/NltI1exuRpAAqCnN02g@public.gmane.org, viro-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org, oleg-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:51:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > OK, replacing a lock_kernel() with a spin_lock(&global_lock) is pretty > straightforwad. But it's really really sad. It basically leaves a great > big FIXME in there. It'd be better to fix it. Umm, we've been discussiong this in and out a guestimated million times. Let's go forward with Jon's patch which is on obvious improvement and if it shows problems later on we can revisit it. There's this proverb about premature optimization, ya' know? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html