Re: [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:55:55PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Rare activity that still runs under the BKL (e.g. mounting, or
> ioctls) can introduce many milliseconds of scheduling delays that
> hurt latencies.

Is it not worth looking at the worst offenders (ioctl will be hard I
suspect) and fixing these as an interim step?


  --cw
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