Re: bkl cleanup in do_sysctl

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:46, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> >For example reiserfs uses the BKL for all write locking (!), but it
> >probably would not be too hard to fix, because you can just look at
> >another filesystem that has proper locking.
> >  
> >
> Wrong. ;-)  Balancing makes it way hard.  Use reiser4.  That has very 
> sophisticated locking that pushes the research envelope, if you want to 
> read code to learn about locking.....
> 

OK, I will give it a try.  Are any of the reiser3 latency issues
reported in the voluntary preemption thread addressed in reiser4?

Lee 

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