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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:02:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Martin Wirth wrote:
>
> There are currently several attempts discussed to push out the
> BKL and replace it by a semaphore e.g. the next step Robert Love
> planned for his ll_seek patch (replace the BKL by inode i_sem).

But that won't have any contention anyway, so it's a non-issue.

		Linus

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