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

From: Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 20:20:04 EST

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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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