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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805071243330.3024@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:44:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...i.umich.edu>,
"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> One patch I'd still like Yanmin to test is my one from yesterday which
> removes the BKL from fs/locks.c.
And I'd personally rather have the network-fs people test and comment on
that one ;)
I think that patch is worth looking at regardless, but the problems with
that one aren't about performance, but about what the implications are for
the filesystems (if any)...
Linus
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