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FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE available

Posted Feb 29, 2008 19:32 UTC (Fri) by cyrus (guest, #36858)
In reply to: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE available by andikleen
Parent article: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE available

Jonathan mentioned it in his 2004 article "The BKL lives on". 
Quoting "The file locking code still requires the BKL." 
http://lwn.net/Articles/86859/

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FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE available

Posted Feb 29, 2008 19:49 UTC (Fri) by cyrus (guest, #36858) [Link]

I guess what i meant is the "global file list lock". Peter Zijlstra posted a patch in January
2007 but it wasn't accepted. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/28/29.

Along the lines Ingo Molnar posted some benchmarks: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/28/116 You can
clearly see the improvements. Maybe Peter can start another attempt to get this upstream.