On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:19:24AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06 2005, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > The following patchset breaks down the global ide_lock to per-hwgroup lock.
> > We have taken the following approach.
>
> Curious, what is the point of this?
>
On smp machines with multiple ide interfaces, we take per-group lock instead
of a global lock, there by breaking the lock to per-irq hwgroups.
Thanks,
Kiran
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