From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764751AbZEAUFp (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 16:05:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755592AbZEAUFf (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 16:05:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35409 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753444AbZEAUFe (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 16:05:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:59:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Frederic Weisbecker cc: LKML , Jeff Mahoney , ReiserFS Development List , Chris Mason , Alexander Beregalov , Alessio Igor Bogani , Jonathan Corbet , Alexander Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kill-the-BKL/reiserfs3: performance improvements, faster than Bkl based scheme In-Reply-To: <1241145862-21700-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1241145862-21700-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 May 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > This reiserfs patchset applies against latest tip:core/kill-the-BKL > It adds various explicit write lock releases on specific sleeping sections. Btw, is there any reason why it cannot just be re-based on top of standard -rc4? I'd love to pull a "reiserfs: remove bkl" branch when the next merge window opens, but there's no way I'll pull the kill-bkl thing with all the odd random tty stuff etc that is totally unrelated. And as far as I can tell, all your reiserfs patches are totally unrelated to all other changes, and it would be _much_ nicer to just merge the reiserfs ones. So there's - the filesystem mount bkl pushdown - the reiserfs series and quite frankly, I'll happily take the straightforward BKL pushdown, but I do _not_ want to see this mix-up with all the tty stuff, or even the NFS and RPC changes. In fact, if it makes it easier for people to merge, I can take the pure VFS push-down that was already Ack'ed by Al. But the rest of the stuff really isn't appropriate. For example, every single remove the BKL: remove "BKL auto-drop" assumption from xyz patch in that series is pure and utter crap. I'm not going to take things like that. But it looks like your reiserfs patches really are totally independent of everything else, and should be merged as such. Linus