Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Coda: remove BKL

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Jan Harkes wrote:
> The following three patches remove the big kernel lock from the Coda
> file system kernel module. We initially add a spinlock to protect the
> Coda-specific inode data. After this we can push the BKL all the way
> down to where the requests are queued for the userspace Coda cache
> manager process and finally we replace the remaining BKL uses with a
> mutex that protects the upcall queues.

Very nice!

Are you pushing this to Linus or should I take care of it along with
the other file systems?

This patch is larger than most of the others, but I can add it to
my bkl/vfs tree if you like.

	Arnd
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