On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Atri Sharma <atri.jiit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Atri Sharma <atri.jiit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 05:39:45PM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote: >>>> Sorry,the email is incomplete. >>>> >>>> As mentioned above, I am a C developer and really interested in file >>>> systems, and the Fedora community redirected me to BTRFS. I would >>>> really love to contribute to btrfs. >>>> >>>> Please let me know how I can proceed further, and what are the >>>> potential areas I can work in. >>> >>> Well, there's this page on the wiki: >>> >>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas >>> >>> As for how to proceed -- decide on a project you like the look of, >>> mark it as in progress on the wiki, and submit patches to here as an >>> RFC when you think you've got something worth looking at. >>> >>> If you come up with something else that's not on the list, I'd >>> suggest putting a brief description of it in this mailing list, just >>> to check whether there's someone else working on it, or if it's an >>> unexpectedly difficult or controversial idea. >> >> Hi Hugo, >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> I have been studying concurrency lately, so I would love to work in that area. >> >> Specifically, I would love to work on 'Btree lock contention'. >> >> I have some ideas for it, specifically I would like to see if we can >> reduce the lock granularity or spread the threads blocking over time, >> or maybe use something like combining trees. >> >> Please let me know if that is ok. >> >> Atri >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Atri >> l'apprenant > > Hi All, > > Sorry for causing a ruckus.Actually, due to some stupidity, I seem to > have changed a lot of names in the wiki whereas I wanted to change > only one. Is there any way to revert this? > > I am really sorry for having caused this. My lack of experience with wikis. > Whew! Fixed. The latest comment on the wiki about the lock contention confuses me. It is still an open project, right? Or do I find something else to work on? Regards, Atri -- Regards, Atri l'apprenant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
