Re: [PATCH 0/5 -tip] umount_begin BKL pushdown

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:57:44 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > When that happens, could you please put it into a separate, 
> > append-only branch i could pull (after some initial test-time) into 
> > tip:kill-the-BKL?  
> 
> And just wondering how all this relates to Jonathan's (currently empty)
> bkl-removal tree (that is merged into linux-next)?

I set up my tree after a request from Linus; it was meant as a place
for near-term BKL-removal stuff to accumulate.  In the last couple of
cycles, it's only had a small trickle of stuff that I've been able to
do myself.  Ingo's tree is a rather grander vision, including a bunch
of debugging stuff and more.

The time for my tree may be nearing its end, but I'd just as soon keep
it around for a little longer.  I may yet find some time to do some
more work in this area.

jon
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