Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756233Ab0D0O6T (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:58:19 -0400 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:34591 "EHLO longford.logfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756203Ab0D0O6P (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:58:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:58:04 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: John Kacur , lkml , Linus Torvalds , Frederic Weisbecker , Jan Blunck , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] logfs: push down BKL into ioctl function Message-ID: <20100427145804.GA16794@logfs.org> References: <1272378265-10909-2-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1272378265-10909-2-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 611 Lines: 18 On Tue, 27 April 2010 16:24:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > I'm sure that logfs doesn't rely on the BKL, but right now, > we're just pushing it down. So why do you create logfs_unlocked_ioctl in the first place? ;) Jörn -- Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then don't unless one part of the code overwhelms the rest. -- Rob Pike -- 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/