Re: [GIT PULL] Total BKL removal, finally

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Mar 16 2011 - 23:07:27 EST


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:39:37PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> commit 4ba8216cd90560bc402f52076f64d8546e8aefcb
> Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Jan 25 22:52:22 2011 +0100
>
> BKL: That's all, folks

All I can say is "Yay!"

Nice work Arnd.

-- Steve

>
> This removes the implementation of the big kernel lock,
> at last. A lot of people have worked on this in the
> past, I so the credit for this patch should be with
> everyone who participated in the hunt.
>
> The names on the Cc list are the people that were the
> most active in this, according to the recorded git
> history, in alphabetical order.
>
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