Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:02:25 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5 |
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Martin Wirth wrote: > > There are currently several attempts discussed to push out the > BKL and replace it by a semaphore e.g. the next step Robert Love > planned for his ll_seek patch (replace the BKL by inode i_sem).
But that won't have any contention anyway, so it's a non-issue.
Linus
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