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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:07:04 -0400
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:40:54 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> 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

<looks inside ptrace.c>

Seems that there might be a few tricksy bits in here.  Please do push
at least the non-obvious parts out to the relevant people.

It'd be interesting to see the overall diffstat?