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From: "Palash Bandyopadhyay" <Palash.Bandyopadhyay@conexant.com>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Subject: RE: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:24:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34B38BE41EDBA046A4AFBB591FA31132024B33E8CE@NBMBX01.bbnet.ad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201101261445.17751.arnd@arndb.de>

I think it should be ok. If we do hit any performance issue, we'll revisit this.

Thanks,
Palash

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd@arndb.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:45 AM
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Cc: Greg KH; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Andrew Hendry; Andrew Morton; Arjan van de Ven; Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; autofs@linux.kernel.org; Chris Wilson; Dave Airlie; dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; Evgeniy Dushistov; Frederic Weisbecker; H. Peter Anvin; Ian Kent; Ingo Molnar; Jeff Layton; linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org; linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; linux-x25@vger.kernel.org; Mikulas Patocka; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Nick Bowler; Palash Bandyopadhyay; Ross Cohen; Russell King; Stuart Swales; Takahiro Hirofuchi; Thomas Gleixner
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> I guess you're meaning cx25821, right? 

Right, sorry for the typo.
 
> Palash should take a look on it and review. This is a device that allows
> 12 simultaneous streams, so, I suspect that he'll need to do some
> changes at the locking schema, to avoid performance bottlenecks.

I would be surprised if there was any measurable performance change.
The BKL was used only in the open() function to iterate the device
list, and that code is nowhere on a critical path, as far as I can tell.

	Arnd

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Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25 22:17 [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 01/20] drm/i810: remove the BKL Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 02/20] drm: remove i830 driver Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 03/20] staging/usbip: convert to kthread Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-28 17:53   ` Max Vozeler
2011-01-28 18:48     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-01 22:15     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 04/20] staging/cx25721: serialize access to devlist Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 16:23   ` Palash Bandyopadhyay
2011-01-31 21:37   ` Greg KH
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 05/20] staging/go7007: remove the BKL Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 06/20] staging: Remove autofs3 Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26  7:41   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 07/20] staging: remove smbfs Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 08/20] adfs: remove the big kernel lock Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:20   ` Russell King
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 09/20] hpfs: rename big kernel lock to hpfs_lock Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 10/20] hpfs: replace BKL with a global mutex Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26  0:15   ` Andi Kleen
2011-01-26  0:19   ` Andi Kleen
2011-01-26 12:48     ` [PATCH v2] hpfs: remove the BKL Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 12:50     ` [PATCH 10/20] hpfs: replace BKL with a global mutex Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 16:52       ` Andi Kleen
2011-01-27  5:01         ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-27 10:57           ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 11/20] hpfs: move to drivers/staging Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-07 16:17   ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-02-07 19:31     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 12/20] x25: remove the BKL Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-27 10:07   ` Andrew Hendry
2011-01-27 12:17     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-27 12:38       ` [PATCH v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-27 13:20         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-27 13:43           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 13/20] appletalk: move to staging Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 14/20] staging/appletalk: remove the BKL Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:29   ` David Miller
2011-01-26 12:57     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 15/20] ufs: " Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26  2:30   ` Nick Bowler
2011-01-26 12:53     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-27  5:47   ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-27 13:13     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 16/20] ipx: " Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 17/20] tracing: don't trace " Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:28   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 18/20] rtmutex-tester: remove BKL tests Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 15:00   ` [tip:core/locking] rtmutex-tester: Remove " tip-bot for Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-22 20:57   ` [tip:irq/core] rtmutex: tester: " tip-bot for Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 19/20] drivers: remove extraneous includes of smp_lock.h Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:17 ` [PATCH 20/20] BKL: That's all, folks Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26  6:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-26  8:47     ` Alan Cox
2011-01-26 11:01       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-26 11:22   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-01-26  2:22 ` [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users Greg KH
2011-01-26  2:22   ` Greg KH
2011-01-26 11:31   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 11:31     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 11:58     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2011-01-26 13:45       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 13:45         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 13:45         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-26 16:24         ` Palash Bandyopadhyay [this message]
2011-01-25 22:22 Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 22:22 ` Arnd Bergmann

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