From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
jblunck@suse.de, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:06:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003251406.10177.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1003251354200.16443@twin.jikos.cz>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-25 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-24 21:40 [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-24 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2010-03-25 10:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-28 20:33 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-24 21:53 ` Roland Dreier
2010-03-24 21:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-31 5:22 ` Roland Dreier
2010-03-24 22:10 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-24 22:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-24 22:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-25 12:55 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-03-25 13:06 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-03-25 13:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-26 23:47 ` Stefan Richter
2010-03-27 9:16 ` [PATCH] firewire: char device files are not seekable (BKL removal) Stefan Richter
2010-03-27 9:20 ` [PATCH] ieee1394: " Stefan Richter
2010-03-27 10:40 ` [PATCH RFC] DVB: add dvb_generic_nonseekable_open, dvb_generic_unlocked_ioctl, use in firedtv Stefan Richter
2010-03-28 14:47 ` [PATCH RFC v2] " Stefan Richter
2010-03-27 14:37 ` [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-28 12:27 ` Stefan Richter
2010-03-28 20:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-28 20:15 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-28 21:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-28 23:24 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-08 20:45 ` Jan Blunck
2010-04-08 21:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-08 21:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-09 11:02 ` Jan Blunck
2010-04-10 15:13 ` Stefan Richter
2010-03-28 21:58 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-29 1:07 ` [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock II Andi Kleen
2010-03-29 11:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-29 12:30 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-29 14:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-29 20:11 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-31 15:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-25 13:40 ` [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock Dan Carpenter
2010-03-25 14:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-28 20:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-28 20:11 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-28 23:18 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-28 23:38 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-29 11:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-29 17:59 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-29 21:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-29 12:45 ` John Kacur
2010-03-31 22:11 ` Roland Dreier
2010-03-31 22:20 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-01 8:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
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