Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

I'm thinking that dropping the superblock lock completly wouldn't be much more
difficult than this mid stage.  The only cases where we block in critical
sections protected by the superblock lock is in getblk/bread (bread calls
getblk) and ll_rw_block and mark_buffer_dirty.  Once we drop the lock for the
first cases it should not be more difficult to drop it completly.

ext2_new_block->dquot_alloc_block->lock_dquot

ext2_new_block->dquot_alloc_block->check_bdq->print_warning->tty_write_message

Not sure if this is the right moment for those changes though, I'm not worried
about ext2 but about the other non-netoworked fses that nobody uses regularly.

So help testing the patches to them. Arrgh...

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