On Sunday 11 July 2010 00:01:10 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Yes, that was the idea. This is the last patch I need to run all of my machines without the BKL, so I spent a few hours looking at how to fix lockd. When I couldn't figure it out, I decided to do an evil hack that happens to work, in order to build pressure. Arnd -- 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
