Hi!
> > -It is slow.
>
> I wouldn't call it any fast when I think about the idea that 31 of my CPUs
> on Hawkeye shall be stopped because I unload a module. Sometimes at high
> noon my server (Hawkeye) can hardly keep up all the traffic. Just imagine
> a module would be unloaded then! That's the problem I'm having with it.
>
> What should make a lock for parts of the kernel slower than a lock for
> the _whole_ kernel?
Lock for the whole kernel has less impact over overall code, I
believe.
Pavel
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