Re: [PATCH 0/5 -tip] umount_begin BKL pushdown

Jonathan Corbet
2009-04-24T14:31:41Z

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:57:44 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> > When that happens, could you please put it into a separate,
> > append-only branch i could pull (after some initial test-time) into
> > tip:kill-the-BKL?
>
> And just wondering how all this relates to Jonathan's (currently empty)
> bkl-removal tree (that is merged into linux-next)?

I set up my tree after a request from Linus; it was meant as a place
for near-term BKL-removal stuff to accumulate. In the last couple of
cycles, it's only had a small trickle of stuff that I've been able to
do myself. Ingo's tree is a rather grander vision, including a bunch
of debugging stuff and more.

The time for my tree may be nearing its end, but I'd just as soon keep
it around for a little longer. I may yet find some time to do some
more work in this area.

jon