From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CA96B024D for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:17:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:17:46 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: VFS scalability git tree Message-ID: <20100723111746.GA5169@infradead.org> References: <20100722190100.GA22269@amd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100722190100.GA22269@amd> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Frank Mayhar , John Stultz List-ID: I might sound like a broken record, but if you want to make forward progress with this split it into smaller series. What would be useful for example would be one series each to split the global inode_lock and dcache_lock, without introducing all the fancy new locking primitives, per-bucket locks and lru schemes for a start. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org