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The BKL is gone

Posted Mar 18, 2011 0:19 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
Parent article: 2.6.39 merge window part 1

At last, the big kernel lock is gone.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-...

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The BKL is gone

Posted Apr 22, 2011 6:32 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

git grep 'big kernel lock'
git grep -iw bkl

suggest that there is still some cleaning up that could be done. In particular 'lock_depth' still exists in 'struct task_struct' but is never changed from -1.. :-)