Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1

[Sonny Rao]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:34:17PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
<snip> 
> On the filesystem level, FUSE got merged, and ntfs and xfs got updated. In 
> the core VFS layer, the "struct files" thing is now handled with RCU and 
> has less expensive locking.

I hope this means that people will be more accepting of multi-threaded
benchmarks (who needs real apps... ;-)) which do open() and close().


Yes, no?

Sonny
 
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