From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267946AbUHPUiE (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:38:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267947AbUHPUiE (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:38:04 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:10204 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267946AbUHPUiC (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:38:02 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P1 From: Lee Revell To: Hans Reiser Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Charbonnel , Florian Schmidt , linux-kernel , Felipe Alfaro Solana In-Reply-To: <412108E0.4090300@namesys.com> References: <1092622121.867.109.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040816023655.GA8746@elte.hu> <1092624221.867.118.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040816032806.GA11750@elte.hu> <20040816033623.GA12157@elte.hu> <1092627691.867.150.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040816034618.GA13063@elte.hu> <1092628493.810.3.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040816040515.GA13665@elte.hu> <1092654819.5057.18.camel@localhost> <20040816113131.GA30527@elte.hu> <412108E0.4090300@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092688732.13981.28.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:38:53 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 15:20, Hans Reiser wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >i took a quick look and the reiserfs locking rules in that place do not > >seem to be easily fixable - this is the tree-lookup code which i suspect > >cannot be preempted. The reiser journalling code also makes use of the > >big kernel lock. I'd suggest reporting this to the reiserfs folks > > > the fix to reiserfs doing single threaded balancing/searching is called > reiser4;-) It was not a trivial fix. It is however released. > When will reiser4 will be in the stock kernel? Lee