Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758852AbXFVWK0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:10:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752442AbXFVWKN (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:10:13 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:58019 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754482AbXFVWKL (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:10:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:09:01 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steven Rostedt , LKML , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Christoph Hellwig , john stultz , Oleg Nesterov , "Paul E. McKenney" , Dipankar Sarma , "David S. Miller" , matthew.wilcox@hp.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues Message-ID: <20070622220901.GA26207@elte.hu> References: <20070622040014.234651401@goodmis.org> <20070622204058.GA11777@elte.hu> <20070622215953.GA22917@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070622215953.GA22917@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 20 * Ingo Molnar wrote: > [ and on a similar notion, i still havent given up on seeing all BKL > use gone from the kernel. I expect it to happen any decade now ;-) ] 2.6.21 had 476 lock_kernel() calls. 2.6.22-git has 473 lock_kernel() calls currently. With that kind of flux we'll see the BKL gone in about 40 years =B-) 'struct semaphore' use on the other hand has gone down by 10% in this release, which is a good rate. I guess the lack of lockdep coverage for semaphores might be one of the driving forces? ;-) Ingo - 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/