Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266474AbUIOS3P (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:29:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267223AbUIOS3P (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:29:15 -0400 Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.102]:20172 "EHLO pimout3-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266474AbUIOS3H (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:29:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:28:55 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , Arjan van de Ven , Lee Revell Subject: Re: [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real Message-ID: <20040915182855.GA11313@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20040915151815.GA30138@elte.hu> <20040915155555.GA11019@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040915155555.GA11019@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 16 On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:55:55PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Rare activity that still runs under the BKL (e.g. mounting, or > ioctls) can introduce many milliseconds of scheduling delays that > hurt latencies. Is it not worth looking at the worst offenders (ioctl will be hard I suspect) and fixing these as an interim step? --cw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/