Re: [patch] enable PREEMPT_BKL on !PREEMPT+SMP too

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> It might introduce
> performance regressions as well, if any performance-critical code uses
> the BKL heavily and gets overscheduled due to the semaphore. I very much
> hope there is no such performance-critical codepath left though.

A write-intensive benchmark on a reiser3 FS is probably a good place to
start testing.

Lee

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