Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > This removes the BKL in hpfs in a rather awful > way, by replacing it with a mutex that basically > serializes the entire file system. I don't think that's a very good idea, there's danger of holding it over IO and that would be really bad (as in like MINIX[1]) It would be better to do it the i810 way and check for the number of CPUs at module init time and refuse to run if it's > 1 -Andi [1] showing my age -- Andi Kleen Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
