On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:07:42PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > All of this is a long way of saying the btrfs locking scheme is far from > > perfect. I'll look harder at the loop and ways to get rid of it. > > <ob'plug> > > adaptive spinning mutexes perhaps? Such as: Um, I don't know how your mail client does threading, but mine shows Peter's message introducing the adaptive spinning mutexes as a reply to one of Chris' messages in the btrfs thread. Chris is just saying he'll look at other ways to not need the spinning mutexes. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
