From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1 Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080507172246.GA13262@elte.hu> <20080507174900.GB13591@elte.hu> <20080507181714.GA14980@elte.hu> <20080507184304.GA15554@elte.hu> <20080507192425.GC19219@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , "J. Bruce Fields" , "Zhang, Yanmin" , LKML , Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40984 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756341AbYEGTpL (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 15:45:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080507192425.GC19219@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 7 May 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > One patch I'd still like Yanmin to test is my one from yesterday which > removes the BKL from fs/locks.c. And I'd personally rather have the network-fs people test and comment on that one ;) I think that patch is worth looking at regardless, but the problems with that one aren't about performance, but about what the implications are for the filesystems (if any)... Linus