Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1

Sonny Rao
2005-09-13T06:38:11Z

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:34:17PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
<snip>
> On the filesystem level, FUSE got merged, and ntfs and xfs got updated. In
> the core VFS layer, the "struct files" thing is now handled with RCU and
> has less expensive locking.

I hope this means that people will be more accepting of multi-threaded
benchmarks (who needs real apps... ;-)) which do open() and close().

Yes, no?

Sonny