On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Essentially, you are adding tons of scheduling points all over the
> tree and it's not a thing to make blindly...
but (except those cases mentioned above) any race that we have with the
spinlock-based BKL we are going to have with the semaphore-based one as
well, so adding (slow-path) scheduling points shouldnt be that much of a
problem. down()/up() is just as much in-line code as
spin_lock()/spin_unlock().
Ingo
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