Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/20] hpfs: replace BKL with a global mutex | Date | Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:50:42 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Andi Kleen wrote: > I don't think that's a very good idea, there's danger > of holding it over IO and that would be really bad (as in like MINIX[1]) > > It would be better to do it the i810 way and check for the number of > CPUs at module init time and refuse to run if it's > 1
I don't see much value of one evil over the other, but why not. The code is going away anyway unless someone cleans it up further.
Arnd
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