On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:24:23PM -0700, Atri Sharma wrote: > Hi All, > > I was looking through the project ideas page for picking up a project > do start working with BTRFS. I am really interested in Btree lock > contention project, but it seems to be marked that it has already been > done in v3.1 > > Is the project still open? Can I work on it? >
Go for it, we still have plenty of lock contention, it's just in 3.1 we switched to a read/write lock which helped a bunch. Still if you have all writers you are going to hit quite a bit of lock contention, especially on the root nodes. If you have ideas go for it. Thanks, Josef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
