On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:46 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:51:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > OK, replacing a lock_kernel() with a spin_lock(&global_lock) is pretty > > > straightforwad. But it's really really sad. It basically leaves a great > > > big FIXME in there. It'd be better to fix it. > > > > > > Umm, we've been discussiong this in and out a guestimated million times. > > > > Let's go forward with Jon's patch which is on obvious improvement and > > if it shows problems later on we can revisit it. > > The point was that we already have a better patch from Oleg. > Where is this patch? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
