Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 2008 15:35:38 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1 | |
> But my preferred option would indeed be just turning it back into a
> spinlock - and screw latency and BKL preemption - and having the RT people
> who care deeply just work on removing the BKL in the long run.
It isn't as if the RT build can't use a different lock type to the
default build.
> Is BKL preemption worth it? Sounds very dubious. Sounds even more dubious
> when we now apparently have even more reason to aim for removing the BKL
> rather than trying to mess around with it.
We have some horrible long lasting BKL users left unfortunately.
Alan
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