Larry M warned about this
Posted Jun 19, 2003 16:16 UTC (Thu) by
pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
Parent article:
Big changes to ext3 and journaling
Sounds like this part of the code is falling into the ever increasing fine-grained locking that Larry M warned about...
A seperate question: does this matter on non-SMP, non-preemptable kernels,
or do all these locks go away (become no-ops) in that case?
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