Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:00:53 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01 |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> I've realized that my previous patch had too many problems with the > way the journaling system works. So I went back to my first approach > but added the journal_head lock as one global lock to keep the buffer > head size smaller. I only added the state lock to the buffer head. > I've tested this for some time now, and it works well (for the test at > least). I'll recompile it with PREEMPT_DESKTOP to see if that works > too.
good progress - but the global lock may be a scalability worry on upstream though. Would it be possible to just mirror much of the current lock logic, but with spinlocks instead of bitlocks? And there should be no #ifdefs on PREEMPT_RT.
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