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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:42:25 -0800
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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Trond Myklebust wrote:
 > The following patch strongly reduces BKL contention within the NFS
 > read/write code, and within the generic RPC layer.

Do you have any benchmarks which showed BKL contention in the NFS code? 
  I'm not trying to criticize, I think the patch is wonderful.  I want 
to have some more numbers to say, "Look!  The BKL _is_ bad!"

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Dave Hansen
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