Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:01:10 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] Remove BKL from fs/locks.c |
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:51:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> > > I've taken a patch originally written by Matthew Wilcox and > ported it to the current version. Unfortunately, the change > conflicts with the use of lockd, which still heavily uses > the big kernel lock. > > As a workaround, I've made the behaviour configurable, > it either uses the BKL when it's enabled or a spinlock > when the BKL (and consequently nfs and lockd) are > disabled.
Defintively not something we want in mainline. But keep poking the nfs guys to sort the lockd mess out for real.
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