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[PATCH 0/2] Remove BKL from the bfs driver

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From: Dmitri Vorobiev
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Remove BKL from the bfs driver
Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 11:26 am

Hi Andrew,

This removes quite a few instances of BKL usage in the bfs
driver. Given the purpose and the user base of this driver,
I do not believe that a finer-granularity lock than the big
fat filesystem-wide mutex I have implemented here is needed.

Please consider.

Thanks,
Dmitri
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[PATCH 0/2] Remove BKL from the bfs driver, Dmitri Vorobiev, (Thu Jun 5, 11:26 am)
[PATCH 1/2] bfs: assorted cleanups, Dmitri Vorobiev, (Thu Jun 5, 11:26 am)
[PATCH 2/2] bfs: kill BKL, Dmitri Vorobiev, (Thu Jun 5, 11:26 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove BKL from the bfs driver, Andrew Morton, (Thu Jun 5, 11:42 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove BKL from the bfs driver, Vorobiev Dmitri, (Thu Jun 5, 2:11 pm)