> > actually doing most of what you've just suggested here, which i take to be > > a good sign. > > As long as it's great minds thinking alike and not fools seldom > differing ;-) ooh, good phrase, one with which i wasn't familiar :) > > most of my refactoring came out of trying to simplify locking and > > avoid holding locks too long (rather than specifically focusing on > > cluster-oriented stuff, but the goals dovetail) and your work on getting > > the BKL out of locks.c entirely is something i really like and look > > forward to. > > Excellent. Shall I make the patch myself, or did you want to post a > patch based on working code? ;-) please, by all means, keep going -- i want your code! :) my wording was poor and may've sounded like this was already a fait accompli, when basically what i was trying to say was that the locking ended up being a hassle and your approach would also help solve that, in addition to your extra cluster-related needs/goals. thanks, d . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
