Re: [patch 0/3] j_state_lock, j_list_lock, remove-bitlocks

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:23 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >
> > Sorry, it's hard to follow this thread.  Just to make sure we're all on
> > the same page, what exactly is the symptom of this ext3 issue you are
> > working on?  Is it a performance regression, or a latency issue, or a
> > lockup - ?
> >
> > Whatever your problem is, I am not seeing it.
> >
> 
> The root is a lockup.  I think you can get this lockup whether or not it
> is PREEMPT_RT or PREEPMT_DESKTOP.  All you need is CONFIG_PREEMPT turned
> on. Then this is what you want to do on a UP Machine.

OK, no need to cc: me on this one any more.  It's really low priority
IMO compared to the big latencies I am seeing with ext3 and
"data=ordered".  Unless you think there is any relation.

Lee

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