On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:19:24AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06 2005, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > The following patchset breaks down the global ide_lock to per-hwgroup lock. > > We have taken the following approach. > > Curious, what is the point of this? >
On smp machines with multiple ide interfaces, we take per-group lock instead of a global lock, there by breaking the lock to per-irq hwgroups. Thanks, Kiran - 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/
