On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 06:20:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Unfortunate timing that everybody is suddenly interested in the > scalability work :) People have been interested for a long time. It's just that we finally made forward progress to get parts of it shape for merging, which should have been done long time ago. > I might need a little more time than 2.6.37! But I'll try my best. > I don't think the patchset has suddenly become vastly more urgent > in the past month, so I think my approach of having it get a lot > of testing and go in Al's vfs tree for a while is best. It's always been quite urgent. Both inode_lock and dcache_lock contention have been hurting us for a while. -- 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
