From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:29:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20081008202930.19112.90371.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Return-path: Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com ([216.239.58.189]:25367 "EHLO gv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754482AbYJHUbF (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:31:05 -0400 Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id e6so694837gvc.37 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Locking improvements in preparation for replacing the global ide_lock spinlock by per-hwgroup spinlocks [1]. [1] patch (which is partially based on 2005 patch from Scalex86) for this is also ready but it needs some more audit and testing diffstat: drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 38 ++++++------- drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- drivers/ide/ide-ioctls.c | 3 - drivers/ide/ide-lib.c | 7 -- drivers/ide/ide-proc.c | 25 +-------- drivers/ide/ide.c | 7 -- 6 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)