On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:51:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I've taken a patch originally written by Matthew Wilcox and > ported it to the current version. Unfortunately, the change > conflicts with the use of lockd, which still heavily uses > the big kernel lock. > > As a workaround, I've made the behaviour configurable, > it either uses the BKL when it's enabled or a spinlock > when the BKL (and consequently nfs and lockd) are > disabled. Defintively not something we want in mainline. But keep poking the nfs guys to sort the lockd mess out for real. -- 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
