Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:06:10 +0100 |
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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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