LWN: Comments on "The Big Kernel Semaphore?" https://lwn.net/Articles/102253/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "The Big Kernel Semaphore?". en-us Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:55:43 +0000 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:55:43 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net The Big Kernel Semaphore? https://lwn.net/Articles/102390/ https://lwn.net/Articles/102390/ wli Yes, I was the one who mentioned that the code still under the BKL was ancient and buggy.<br> <p> Moving on, since I've rewritten a fair amount of kernel/ and mm/ between 2.6.9-rc1 and 2.6.9-rc2 with the rewrites either in Linus' bk or in -mm now and LWN has yet to take notice, are you writing this stuff based on lkml archives from an account that has me procmailed to /dev/null or something?<br> Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:11:54 +0000