-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Once this is applied, I expect reiserfs to be in deep >>> maintenance-only mode. >> Heh, I hadn't expected even this. > > Note, there are BKL-removal patches in the works by Frédéric > Weisbecker, for the tip:kill-the-BKL topic branch. > > Reiser3 is the heaviest (and most non-trivial) BKL user amongst all > the filesystems, its BKL use is recursive and it frequently relies > on the implicit dropping of the BKL at various blocking points both > for correctness and for performance reasons. > > There might be something worth posting+reviewing soon. Oh interesting. I'm glad someone is working on this. I've started to several times and decided to focus my efforts on things outside of reiserfs instead. The reiserfs usage of the BKL has always been a black mark. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknTlkIACgkQLPWxlyuTD7IAsQCfSNKuHk7oL8KhZK1InW7b189z K4kAn3lINkZFMg89wJbwSiLZEfeQLLJA =grqX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
