Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Coda: remove BKL | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:08:41 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Jan Harkes wrote: > The following three patches remove the big kernel lock from the Coda > file system kernel module. We initially add a spinlock to protect the > Coda-specific inode data. After this we can push the BKL all the way > down to where the requests are queued for the userspace Coda cache > manager process and finally we replace the remaining BKL uses with a > mutex that protects the upcall queues.
Very nice!
Are you pushing this to Linus or should I take care of it along with the other file systems?
This patch is larger than most of the others, but I can add it to my bkl/vfs tree if you like.
Arnd
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