Re: Btrfs for mainline

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:07:42PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > All of this is a long way of saying the btrfs locking scheme is far from 
> > perfect.  I'll look harder at the loop and ways to get rid of it.
> 
> <ob'plug>
> 
> adaptive spinning mutexes perhaps? Such as:

Um, I don't know how your mail client does threading, but mine shows
Peter's message introducing the adaptive spinning mutexes as a reply to
one of Chris' messages in the btrfs thread.

Chris is just saying he'll look at other ways to not need the spinning
mutexes.

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