Re: Regarding contribution to BTRFS

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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



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Regards,

Atri
l'apprenant
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