Re: fs/locks.c BKL removal

Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Sat, 11 May 2002 18:40:00 -0700


Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Ick... I'd really like to see one spinlock protecting all activity in this
> area. And obviously not the magic BKL ;-)

Do you really think a single lock is the way to go? Maybe I'm just
paranoid, but somebody is going to run into a locking bottleneck here
eventually. I also just don't like global locks.

I'll ask our benchmarking team if they have test suites for file
locking. I crossing my fingers.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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