Hi, On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:20, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > could you try a), how clean does it get? Personally i'm much more in > > favor of cleanliness. On the vanilla kernel a spinlock is zero bytes on > > UP [the most RAM-sensitive platform], and it's a word on typical SMP. It's a word, maybe; but it's a word used only by ext3 afaik, and it's getting added to the core buffer_head. Not very nice. It certainly looks like the easiest short-term way out for a development patch series, though. --Stephen - 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/
