| Date | Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:27:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 |
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I'm thinking that dropping the superblock lock completly wouldn't be much more > difficult than this mid stage. The only cases where we block in critical > sections protected by the superblock lock is in getblk/bread (bread calls > getblk) and ll_rw_block and mark_buffer_dirty. Once we drop the lock for the > first cases it should not be more difficult to drop it completly.
ext2_new_block->dquot_alloc_block->lock_dquot
ext2_new_block->dquot_alloc_block->check_bdq->print_warning->tty_write_message
> Not sure if this is the right moment for those changes though, I'm not worried > about ext2 but about the other non-netoworked fses that nobody uses regularly.
So help testing the patches to them. Arrgh...
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