From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Linux-Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] BKL: Push down BKL from do_new_mount() to the filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:33:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091103143333.GA2740@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091103102509.GL21750@bolzano.suse.de>
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:25:09AM +0100, Jan Blunck wrote:
> > For the next spin please don't push it down to filesystems that
> > obviously don't need it at all and just mention them in the patch
> > description. For filesystems like xfs and btrfs that never used the BKL
> > at all that should make life a bit simpler.
>
> My plan was to remove the BKL in the obvious cases in the followup patches
> that are also included in the series. So should I just merge the obvious stuff
> into one patch? Christian Borntraeger was actually requesting the opposite. He
> wants to be able to bisect it to the patch that is removing the BKL. That
> would be much simple with many small patches I think.
Yes, but for most filesystems the BKL never made sense. Anywhere where
it's non-obvious (or the maintainer wants it) make it a separate patch,
but don't bother for things like xfs or btrfs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-03 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-02 10:04 [PATCH 00/27] Push down BKL to the filesystems (v2) Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 01/27] BKL: Push down BKL from do_new_mount() to the filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 17:11 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-03 10:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-03 10:25 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-03 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-11-03 14:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 02/27] BKL: Remove outdated comment and include Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 03/27] BKL: Remove BKL from simple_fill_super Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 04/27] ext2: Add ext2_sb_info mutex Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:26 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-02 16:57 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 17:25 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-05 13:55 ` Jan Kara
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 05/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ext2 filesystem Jan Blunck
2009-11-05 12:41 ` Jan Kara
2009-11-05 13:06 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-05 13:56 ` Jan Kara
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 06/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ext3 fill_super() Jan Blunck
2009-11-05 11:55 ` Jan Kara
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 07/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ext3_put_super() and ext3_remount() Jan Blunck
2009-11-05 11:56 ` Jan Kara
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 08/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ext4 filesystem Jan Blunck
2009-11-09 14:45 ` Theodore Tso
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 09/27] BKL: Remove BKL from 9p Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 10/27] BKL: Remove BKL from autofs4 Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 11:13 ` Ian Kent
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 11/27] BKL: Remove BKL from befs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 12/27] BKL: Remove BKL from btrfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 12:13 ` Chris Mason
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 13/27] BKL: Remove BKL from configfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 18:44 ` Joel Becker
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 14/27] BKL: Remove BKL from cramfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:46 ` Coly Li
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 15/27] BKL: Remove BKL from devpts Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 16/27] BKL: Remove BKL from efs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:47 ` Coly Li
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 17/27] BKL: Remove BKL from exofs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 18/27] BKL: Remove BKL from hostfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 19/27] BKL: Remove BKL from hugetlbfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 20/27] BKL: Remove BKL from minix Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:46 ` Coly Li
2009-11-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 21/27] BKL: Remove BKL from omfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-03 19:21 ` Bob Copeland
2009-11-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 22/27] BKL: Remove BKL from openpromfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 23/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ramfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 24/27] BKL: Remove BKL from romfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 25/27] BKL: Remove BKL from sysfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 16:44 ` Greg KH
2009-11-02 17:35 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 19:58 ` Greg KH
2009-11-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 26/27] BKL: Remove BKL from ubifs Jan Blunck
2009-11-03 5:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-02 10:05 ` [PATCH 27/27] BKL: Remove BKL from xfs Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 11:29 ` [PATCH 00/27] Push down BKL to the filesystems (v2) Christian Borntraeger
2009-11-02 13:30 ` Jan Blunck
2009-11-02 15:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-11-02 15:31 ` Christian Borntraeger
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2009-11-03 16:19 [PATCH 01/27] BKL: Push down BKL from do_new_mount() to the filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation Phillip Lougher
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