From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:21:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:20:58 -0500 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:14497 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:20:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3C856EC4.5090505@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:20:04 -0800 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020227 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Fedyk CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2 In-Reply-To: <200203060023.g260NIB09974@localhost.localdomain> <20020306004432.GC5538@matchmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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