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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 20:10 +0000, > viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > AFAICS, _all_ uses of sleep_on() in drivers are broken in one way or another > > and BKL won't help them. > > I think ext3 and nfs get away with it at the moment by using the BKL. It > does want fixing though. ext3 had all its sleep_on()s and lock_kernel()s eradicated ages ago. In 2.4 it uses sleep_on()s and lock_kernel() makes that safe. It would be nice to fix up the lock_kernel()s in the NFS client: SMP lock contention is quite high in there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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