Re: Reasoning about memory ordering

[Alan Cox]

> Given this is the current state of the code (it's part of btrfs) I believe
> the following could/should be done: 

Is there benchmarking data to show that a custom lock is justified
(especiaally given it's going to mean btrfs and rtlinux don't play
together nicely since it won't be able to see the mutex lock and do
priority boosting ?)

Alan