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SubjectRe: [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock
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On Thursday 25 March 2010, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > I've spent some time continuing the work of the people on Cc and many others
> > to remove the big kernel lock from Linux and I now have bkl-removal branch
> > in my git tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git
> > that lets me run a kernel on my quad-core machine with the only users of the BKL
> > being mostly obscure device driver modules.
>
> config USB
> tristate "Support for Host-side USB"
> depends on USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD && BKL
>
> Well, that's very interesting definition of "obscure" :)
>

That's why I said /mostly/ obscure modules. There are soundcore, usb-core, drm,
vfat and a few other very common ones, along with many obscure ones.

Arnd


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