Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed May 07 2008 - 15:45:43 EST




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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