Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763894AbZDAQ3P (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:29:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756288AbZDAQ26 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:28:58 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57229 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754949AbZDAQ25 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:28:57 -0400 Message-ID: <49D39642.9070606@suse.com> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:28:50 -0400 From: Jeff Mahoney Organization: SUSE Labs, Novell, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9ric_Weisbecker?= , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , ReiserFS Development List Subject: Re: [patch 00/35] Jeff's ReiserFS Patch Queue References: <20090330180215.951354436@suse.com> <20090401161657.GA13802@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090401161657.GA13802@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1447 Lines: 43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Linus Torvalds 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. Oh interesting. I'm glad someone is working on this. I've started to several times and decided to focus my efforts on things outside of reiserfs instead. The reiserfs usage of the BKL has always been a black mark. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknTlkIACgkQLPWxlyuTD7IAsQCfSNKuHk7oL8KhZK1InW7b189z K4kAn3lINkZFMg89wJbwSiLZEfeQLLJA =grqX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/