Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:16:57 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       ReiserFS Development List <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/35] Jeff's ReiserFS Patch Queue
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > Once this is applied, I expect reiserfs to be in deep 
> > maintenance-only mode.
> 
> Heh, I hadn't expected even this.

Note, there are BKL-removal patches in the works by Fr?d?ric 
Weisbecker, for the tip:kill-the-BKL topic branch.

Reiser3 is the heaviest (and most non-trivial) BKL user amongst all 
the filesystems, its BKL use is recursive and it frequently relies 
on the implicit dropping of the BKL at various blocking points both 
for correctness and for performance reasons.

There might be something worth posting+reviewing soon.

	Ingo
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