Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 05:05:27 EST


> code runs under the BKL, and the only other major kernel infrastructure
> that has BKL dependencies is the TTY code. Kasper, as a debugging

And half the ioctls some of which trigger long code sections.

For the tty layer I'm waiting for the revoke code to get finished up and
move from -mm into Linus tree. At that point the real evil lock_kernel
related stuff in the tty layer can switch to using the revoke code for
hangup paths and then other bits can be tackled.

Alan
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