Greetings All, After learning about kernel locking and how atomic operations are good in terms of improving CPU scalability in terms of making a critical region much smaller. I was wondering of how this would improve file system scalability and reliability if implemented in file system code for btrfs worker threads. Nick -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies