Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:04:39 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [xfs-masters] RFC: Fix f_flags races without the BKL |
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 05:59:56AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:27:32 +0100 > Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > > I would prefer O_LOCK_FLAGS bit too. The global lock is not very nice > > and I don't doubt someone will come up with a workload which > > pounds on it. > > Seems hard to imagine that it would be worse than the longstanding BKL > situation. That said, the global lock is clearly an unsubtle approach, > and people don't like it. I'd hoped to slip something quick through > the merge window, but that seems unlikely, especially, since I'm > allegedly on vacation. I'll forget this patch for now and revisit it > next week.
The global lock is an improvement over the current situation, so given that we don't have any better counter-proposals we should put it in for 2.6.29.
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