Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5

Linus Torvalds
2002-02-08T18:17:04Z

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