Re: [patch] speed up / fix the new generic semaphore code (fix AIM740% regression with 2.6.26-rc1)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> I suspect some more performance could be won in this particular workload 
> by getting rid of the BKL dependency altogether.

Did somebody have any trace on which BKL taker it is? It apparently wasn't 
file locking. Was it the tty layer?

		Linus
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