On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:02:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Finally, we can build fs/locks.c, nfs and nfsd with CONFIG_BKL > > disabled. > > > > *not tested* > > Ok, please make this so, so that we finally can effectively get rid of > the BKL in this release (I don't really care about the random old > drivers that may be "depends on BKL"). > > But that obviously requires at least some minimal testing by somebody > who is using NFS heavily, including locking. I assume that the > connectathon tests include file locking? And I presume that the nfs > developers run those at least semi-regularly and could do at least > that kind of minimal testing? I did a couple connectathon runs just now with no obvious ill effects except for some sleep-within-spinlock warnings in the lease code. Yeah, connecthon does include lock tests, though they're just basic correctness tests. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
