If you actuall want to get this work in reposting huge patchkit again and again probably doesn't help. Start to prioritize areas and work on small sets to get them ready. files_lock and vfsmount_lock seem like rather easy targets to start with. But for files_lock I really want to see something to generalize the tty special case. If you touch that are in detail that wart needs to go. Al didn't seem to like my variant very much, so he might have a better idea for it - otherwise it really makes the VFS locking simple by removing any tty interaction with the superblock files list. The other suggestion would be to only open regular (maybe even just writeable) files to the list. In addition to reducing the number of list operations require it will also make the tty code a lot easier. As for the other patches: I don't think the massive fine-grained locking in the hash tables is a good idea. I would recommend to defer them for now, and then look into better data structures for these caches instead of working around the inherent problems of global hash tables. -- 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
