[dm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] dm snapshot: Use fine-grained locking scheme

[Nikos Tsironis]

On 2/28/19 11:37 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I looked at the patches, and they could be merged into the kernel 5.2.
> 
> Please, split this last patch - it is too big and too hard to understand.
> 
> For example, you can split it into three patches:
> [PATCH 3/5] replace mutex with rm_semaphore (basically a revert of 
> 	ae1093be5a0ef997833e200a0dafb9ed0b1ff4fe)
> [PATCH 4/5] replace normal lists with locked lists (but still leave the 
> 	global lock)
> [PATCH 5/5] change down_write to down_read and the rest of the changes
> 
> ... so that the resulting file is the same.

Hi Mikulas,

Thanks for your feedback. I will split the third patch as you requested
and I will send a second version of these patches.

Thanks,
Nikos