Re: [patch] sched: fix scheduling latencies in NTFS mount

From: Anton Altaparmakov
Date: Tue Sep 14 2004 - 08:37:19 EST


On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 12:35, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> this patch fixes scheduling latencies in the NTFS mount path. We are
> dropping the BKL because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock
> semaphore which provides safe locking.
>
> has been tested as part of the -VP patchset.

Looks good. I designed the NTFS driver to not rely on the BKL at all so
you should be able to drop it anywhere you like. (-:

I have applied your patch to my ntfs-2.6-devel bk tree so it doesn't get
lost.

Thanks,

Anton
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