Re: [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:51:02 -0700 Bill Huey (hui) wrote:
>> Judging from how the Linux code is done and the numbers I get from
>> Bill Irwin in casual conversation, the Linux SMP approach is clearly
>> the right track at this time with it's hand honed per-CPU awareness of
>> things. The only serious problem that spinlocks have as they aren't
>> preemptable, which is what Ingo is trying to fix.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:54:12PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> This is what Linus proclaimed 6 or 7 years ago when people were
> trying to convince us to do things like Solaris and other big
> Unixes at the time.

Just in case, I didn't claim it was my idea, I merely gave empirical
evidence.


-- wli
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