On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:39:18PM +0100, Max Kellermann wrote: > Use mutex_lock_killable() instead of mutex_lock() during name lookups, > to allow killing the process while it's waiting. This is cool. Could you describe what situations this mutex gets held for a user-noticable length of time, and how you tested this patch? -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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