Re: [RFC v1 0/5] fs/locks: Use plain percpu spinlocks instead of lglock to protect file_lock

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Feb 20 2015 - 11:06:37 EST


Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> I am looking at how to get rid of lglock. Reason being -rt is not too
> happy with that lock, especially that it uses arch_spinlock_t and

AFAIK it could just use normal spinlock. Have you tried that?

-Andi

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