On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:25:04PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > lock kernel is the big kernel lock as in the very first lock that was > added when Linux grew SMP support. If you filesystem does internal > locking you most likely don't need this one at all. The only superblock > method still called with the BKL in the vfs tree is remount, but it > will most likely be gone before 2.6.31, too. After that you can do > a quick audit if there was anything it protected against and remove it. Don't forget that ->get_sb() on mount(2) is also under BKL. Not a superblock method, for obvious reasons. -- 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
