lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Sep]   [14]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [patch] sched: fix scheduling latencies in NTFS mount
From
Date
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 12:35, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> this patch fixes scheduling latencies in the NTFS mount path. We are
> dropping the BKL because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock
> semaphore which provides safe locking.
>
> has been tested as part of the -VP patchset.

Looks good. I designed the NTFS driver to not rely on the BKL at all so
you should be able to drop it anywhere you like. (-:

I have applied your patch to my ntfs-2.6-devel bk tree so it doesn't get
lost.

Thanks,

Anton
--
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/, http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:06    [W:0.263 / U:0.444 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site