On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Jan Harkes wrote: > The following three patches remove the big kernel lock from the Coda > file system kernel module. We initially add a spinlock to protect the > Coda-specific inode data. After this we can push the BKL all the way > down to where the requests are queued for the userspace Coda cache > manager process and finally we replace the remaining BKL uses with a > mutex that protects the upcall queues. Very nice! Are you pushing this to Linus or should I take care of it along with the other file systems? This patch is larger than most of the others, but I can add it to my bkl/vfs tree if you like. 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
