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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:20:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C856EC4.5090505@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203060023.g260NIB09974@localhost.localdomain> <E16iPdM-0004x1-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020306004432.GC5538@matchmail.com>

Mike Fedyk wrote:
 > Also, there seems to be a plan already in progress to do this on
 > 2.5.  BLK has been moved around in several filesystems to ease
 > transition to another lock.

As I indicated elsewhere in the thread, this _is_ a 2.5 backport
chosen because of the tremendous impact on BKL contention.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-06  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-06  0:23 [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2 Dave Hansen
2002-03-06  0:40 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-06  0:51   ` Dave Hansen
2002-03-06  1:19     ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-06  6:57   ` Dave Hansen
2002-03-06  0:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06  1:17   ` Dave Hansen
     [not found]   ` <20020306004432.GC5538@matchmail.com>
2002-03-06  1:20     ` Dave Hansen [this message]

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