Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed May 14 2008 - 17:11:54 EST


> Most of the legacy users are unlikely to be latency problems,
> simply because only very few people (or nobody) still has that hardware
> and the code will never run.
>
> Also I wouldn't lose sleep over e.g. let ISDN continue using BKL forever.

Most of the legacy users inflict that locking on other code - eg the ISN
use of the BKL directly impacts on the tty layer work.
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