Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] BKL shifting into drivers and filesystems - beware | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:35:44 +0100 |
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viro@math.psu.edu said: > OK, folks - current bunch of changes looks rather interesting from > the scalability point of view, but it means changes in 3rd-party code. > Doing it during the 2.4 is obviously not an option and postponing to > 2.5 looks like an overkill since changes are massive but very simple.
Does this mean we want to kill sleep_on() in 2.4 too, rather than waiting till 2.5? I understood that the main reason for keeping it was because filesystem code still uses it, and it's valid because filesystem code always holds the BKL.
-- dwmw2
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