On 13 Oct 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Still in 2.4 the VFS takes the big kernel lock unnecessarily for
> a few VFS operations (no matter if the underlying FS needs it or not).
> That's fixed in 2.5.
Something I was a bit surprised to notice recently: 2.5 still holds
big kernel lock around the potentially very lengthy vmtruncate() -
is that one still really necessary at VFS level?
Hugh
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