From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:56:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040917135657.GW15426@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040917134737.GS9106@holomorphy.com>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:47:37AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> as the BKL is acquired before spinlocks in all instances. There are
that reinforces my argument, that's another case that can break with
this patch.
I don't think it has a chance to fix any bug, if something it will
trigger some deadlock or race condition, but OTOH I agree it should work
fine (all code I can recall by memory takes the BKL before any inner
spinlock too, and I don't think we left anything that depends on
smp_processor_id()), but again this is the kind of change that requires
some testing and cannot be shipped by default in a stable tree, it
requires config option at the very least.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-17 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 15:18 [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 15:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 17:04 ` Ricky Beam
2004-09-15 19:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 18:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-15 21:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-17 10:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-17 12:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-17 20:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-18 8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-18 23:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-17 13:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-17 13:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-17 13:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-09-17 14:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-17 15:16 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] <2EJTp-7bx-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-15 15:46 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-15 15:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 20:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-16 1:17 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-16 14:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-16 22:29 ` Bill Huey
2004-09-16 22:40 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-16 22:51 ` Bill Huey
2004-09-16 22:54 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-16 23:01 ` Bill Huey
2004-09-16 23:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-17 6:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-17 7:21 ` Tony Lee
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2004-09-18 5:44 Manfred Spraul
2004-09-18 13:09 ` Ingo Molnar
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