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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] BKL: remove from ext2
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:01:43 -0400
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:30:03PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> Remove the big kernel lock from ext2 and replace it with a per superblock
> mutex.

Might be worth taking a look what the other ext brothers are doing in
that area and doing proper finer-grained locking?