[autofs] [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-02-01 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I've gone through all the code in the kernel that uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is what I'd suggest we do: * Remove in 2.6.39: i830, autofs3, smbfs * Move to staging now

Re: [autofs] [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-02-01 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I've gone through all the code in the kernel that > uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution > that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. > > The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is > what I'd suggest

Re: [autofs] [bryder_autofs_4.1.4_PATCH 0/8] *** SUBJECT HERE ***

2011-02-01 Thread Bill Ryder
Wow that's embarrassing. I missed out the subject line. Doh. Bill ___ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs

Re: [autofs] [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-02-01 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > I've gone through all the code in the kernel that > > uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution > > that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. > > > > The decisio

Re: [autofs] [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-02-01 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 26-01-2011 09:31, Arnd Bergmann escreveu: > On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Greg KH wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> I've gone through all the code in the kernel that >>> uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution >>> that seems at least half-r

Re: [autofs] [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-02-01 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > I guess you're meaning cx25821, right? Right, sorry for the typo. > Palash should take a look on it and review. This is a device that allows > 12 simultaneous streams, so, I suspect that he'll need to do some > changes at the locking

Re: [autofs] [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-02-01 Thread Palash Bandyopadhyay
I think it should be ok. If we do hit any performance issue, we'll revisit this. Thanks, Palash -Original Message- From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:a...@arndb.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:45 AM To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Greg KH; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; Andrew Hendry; Andr

[autofs] autofs5.0.5 patches for old kernels.

2011-02-01 Thread kiran
Hi, In autofs-5.0.5 distribution there are no kernel V5 patches for old kernel(s2.6.9 to 2.6.17), but document INSTALL says Applying The Kernel Patch = Patches that can be applied to the kernel are located in the `patches' directory. If you have ins