Am Montag 02 November 2009 14:30:42 schrieb Jan Blunck: > On Mon, Nov 02, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > Am Montag 02 November 2009 11:04:40 schrieb Jan Blunck: > > > During the realtime preemption mini-summit we discussed the entire > > > removal of the big kernel lock. I've started working on this for some > > > filesystems. My plan is to push the BKL down to the implementations > > > first and remove it from there later. > > > > > > This series is pushing the BKL from do_new_mount() down to the > > > filesystems and removes it from ext series of filesystems and one other > > > trivial use: if the BKL is only used in get_sb/fill_super due to the > > > push-down, we just need to make sure that parallel calls to > > > get_sb/fill_super would race against each other. > > > > seems that patch 1 (the pushdown) did not yet made it to the list. > > Seems that the CC list was too long because I used get_maintainer.pl > together with git-send-email on this patch ... > > > Looking at > > you diffstat it seems that you only touched fs/* > > > > There are filesystems in other places, e.g. > > drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c, > > arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c > > or > > arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c > > > > I am really not an expert in filesystems, so my comment might be bogus: > > My expection was, that a simple pushdown should also affect these > > filesystems, especially if the filesystems dont use simple_fill_super, > > no? > > D'Oh! You are totally correct. Seems that nothing important outside of fs/ > actually requires the BKL since my box is still wor > -- 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
