From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] scsi/sd: remove big kernel lock
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:06:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100707020623.GA28839@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278193640-24223-7-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>
This looks fine, although relying on the bd_mutex held in the caller
for ->openers seems a bit fragile. At least add a big comment about
this fact.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-07 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-03 21:47 [PATCH 0/6] block: BKL removal, version 3 Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-03 21:47 ` [PATCH 1/6] block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-04 7:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-07-04 20:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-07 1:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 13:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-03 21:47 ` [PATCH 2/6] block: push down BKL into .open and .release Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-04 8:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-07-04 17:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-07-04 20:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-07-04 21:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-07 1:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 14:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-03 21:47 ` [PATCH 3/6] block: push BKL into blktrace ioctls Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-07 1:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 13:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-03 21:47 ` [PATCH 4/6] block: remove BKL from BLKROSET and BLKFLSBUF Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-07 1:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-03 21:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] block: remove BKL from partition code Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-07 2:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-03 21:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] scsi/sd: remove big kernel lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-07 2:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-07-07 13:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
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