On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:35:41PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On 7/31/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Almost all of the Reiser3 > > code runs under the BKL, and the only other major kernel infrastructure > > that has BKL dependencies is the TTY code. > > Also NFS: > > $ grep -rIi lock_kernel kernel-source/linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/ | wc -l > 94
All the file locking code (the nfs-related stuff in fs/lockd/, and also the vfs code in fs/locks.c) is under the kernel lock. I doubt it's held very long unless you have ridiculous numbers of processes requesting locks on the same file, but I don't know. --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
