Re: [PATCH 2.6] serialization of kernelcapi work

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Mar 20 2004 - 16:06:47 EST


Armin Schindler <armin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > However you are limiting things so only a single CPU can run `work to do'
> > at any time, same as with a semaphore.
>
> Well, limiting the 'work to do' to one CPU is exactly what I need to do,
> the code must not run on another CPU at the same time.

Across the entire kernel? For *all* ISDN connections and interfaces?

Surely there must be some finer-grained level at which the serialisation is
needed - per-inteface, per-connection, per-session, whatever?

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