Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2

Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:20:04 -0800

Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Also, there seems to be a plan already in progress to do this on
> 2.5. BLK has been moved around in several filesystems to ease
> transition to another lock.

As I indicated elsewhere in the thread, this _is_ a 2.5 backport
chosen because of the tremendous impact on BKL contention.

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com


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