From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from driverfs
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 17:08:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D24E368.5060905@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.21.0207041953370.12731-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
>>CC'ing Al for comments...
>>
>>Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>>bleah, a proliferation of a zillion little spinlocks all across the
>>>kernel is not my idea of fun :(
>>
>>A zillion locks each with a single purpose is a lot more fun than 1
>>lock with a zillion different uses.
>
> Wrong. It's fun if you are into taking a turd and turning it into a thin film
> spread over all available surfaces. The former has a chance to be removed.
> The latter is hopeless.
>
> "Zillion little spinlocks" means that kernel is scaled into oblivion.
> Literally. If you want to play with resulting body - feel free, but
> I like it less kinky.
>
So, can we remove the spread in this case?
--
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-05 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-04 6:26 [PATCH] remove BKL from driverfs Dave Hansen
2002-07-04 7:10 ` Greg KH
2002-07-04 7:26 ` Dave Hansen
2002-07-04 22:23 ` Greg KH
2002-07-04 23:38 ` Dave Hansen
2002-07-04 23:58 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-05 0:08 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2002-07-05 17:09 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-05 17:47 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-08 0:41 ` Dave Hansen
2002-07-08 2:43 ` Greg KH
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