From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757008Ab0GGTgs (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:36:48 -0400 Received: from 0122700014.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.99.235]:57253 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754297Ab0GGTgr (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:36:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4C34D74A.4060308@kernel.dk> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:36:42 +0200 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Christoph Hellwig , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, John Kacur , Frederic Weisbecker , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] block: BKL removal, version 4 References: <1278514289-21054-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <1278514289-21054-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/07/10 16.51, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > This series removes the big kernel lock from the common > block layer code by pushing it into the individual > device drivers. > > This version incorporates further changes to address > comments from Christoph Hellwig and Sam Ravnborg, > many thanks for the valuable feedback! > > I'd like to get this into 2.6.36 in order to remove > the BKL from all the core kernel code. > > Once Christoph is happy with the series, in particular > the third patch, I'd like to add it to linux-next > for broader testing, preferrably though Jens Axboe's > linux-2.6-block.git tree. I'll go over each one tomorrow and add the series. Thanks a lot for getting this done! -- Jens Axboe