| | Date | Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:34 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree | |
> Most of the legacy users are unlikely to be latency problems,
> simply because only very few people (or nobody) still has that hardware
> and the code will never run.> > Also I wouldn't lose sleep over e.g. let ISDN continue using BKL forever.
Most of the legacy users inflict that locking on other code - eg the ISN
use of the BKL directly impacts on the tty layer work.
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