On Thursday 21 October 2010, Jan Harkes wrote: > On 10/21/2010 05:08 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 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. > > In that case it might be better when pushed separately, just to avoid > any chances on a merge conflict for the bkl/vfs tree. I was thinking of > letting the initial merges hit, rebase and retest over the weekend if > there were any Coda related changes, and sending the final version to > Linus by monday. > > Besides, that gives me a couple of more days to make sure I weed out any > remaining issues. Ok, good. I'll leave everything as is then, to avoid having to rebase myself. This means you will get the conflict against the pushdown patch into coda_fill_super, which is trivial to clean up by reverting part of my patch and applying yours. 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
