The realtime preemption endgame

Posted Aug 6, 2009 8:06 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196)
In reply to: The realtime preemption endgame by tialaramex
Parent article: The realtime preemption endgame

> For the BKL stuff, what is needed to get a BKL-removing patch into a mainline driver?

You're expected to carefully review interactions with other subsystems, locking within the driver, identify things relying on the BLK (often it's very little or nothing) and then remove/replace the BLK usage.