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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driverfs updates
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:43:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020710004320.GC596@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207090502510.10105-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm>

Hi!

> > -It is slow.
> 
> I wouldn't call it any fast when I think about the idea that 31 of my CPUs 
> on Hawkeye shall be stopped because I unload a module. Sometimes at high 
> noon my server (Hawkeye) can hardly keep up all the traffic. Just imagine 
> a module would be unloaded then! That's the problem I'm having with it.
> 
> What should make a lock for parts of the kernel slower than a lock for 
> the _whole_ kernel?

Lock for the whole kernel has less impact over overall code, I
believe.
								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-10 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-08 18:41 Driverfs updates Patrick Mochel
2002-07-08 23:33 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-08 23:52   ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-09  0:09     ` Keith Owens
2002-07-09  8:30     ` Oliver Neukum
2002-07-09 11:08       ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-09 11:45         ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 12:20           ` David D. Hagood
2002-07-09 12:33             ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-09 14:43             ` jbradford
2002-07-10  7:15             ` jw schultz
2002-07-09 17:05         ` Oliver Neukum
2002-07-10  0:43         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-07-09 16:56   ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-09 23:29     ` Keith Owens
2002-07-10 20:02       ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-11  0:40     ` John Alvord
2002-07-18 18:11 driverfs updates Patrick Mochel
2002-07-18 18:33 ` Greg KH
2002-07-18 19:57   ` Patrick Mochel

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