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SubjectRe: locking hierarchy based on lockdep

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Roland Dreier wrote:

> > interesting...perhaps if we layered say the directory structure on the
> > list too like by the top level kernel directories drivers, kernel, mm,
> > net, etc. it might be more readable.
>
> I'm not sure that you need to do something manual or ad hoc like that,
> although it might be necessary in the end. I'd be curious to see how
> the list of locks partitions up if you just divide it up into groups
> of locks that have some relationship. I guess the question is, if you
> draw the graph whose nodes are locks and whose edges connect locks
> that are held together, how many connected pieces does that graph have?
>
> - R.
>

ok, so grouping the list by sections of connected components-that's a nice
idea, and would probably make for an interesting list.

-jason
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