Re: [PATCH] concurrent block allocation for ext2 against 2.5.64

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:24:31AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Okay, dump_stack() every once in a while when we schedule() in down().

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 04:08:19AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Thanks.

No problem. I think we found out a number of things that help everyone.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:24:31AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> No good ideas how to script the results so I have the foggiest idea
>> who's the bad guy. gzipped and MIME attached (Sorry!) for space reasons.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 04:08:19AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> lock_super() in the ext2 inode allocator mainly.  It needs the same treatment.

Terrific! Not only have we resolved 16x ext2 contention issues we've
also identified a clear direction for 32x!!

Go fs hackers go! First 2.5 VM, now 2.6/2.7 VFS. What can't you do?

-- wli