Re: bkl cleanup in do_sysctl

Lee Revell
2004-08-10T20:09:54Z

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:46, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> >For example reiserfs uses the BKL for all write locking (!), but it
> >probably would not be too hard to fix, because you can just look at
> >another filesystem that has proper locking.
> >
> >
> Wrong. ;-) Balancing makes it way hard. Use reiser4. That has very
> sophisticated locking that pushes the research envelope, if you want to
> read code to learn about locking.....
>

OK, I will give it a try. Are any of the reiser3 latency issues
reported in the voluntary preemption thread addressed in reiser4?

Lee