[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > I guess you're meaning cx25821, right? Right, sorry for the typo. > Palash should take a look on it and review. This is a device that allows > 12 simultaneous streams, so, I suspect that he'll need to do some > changes at the locking s

[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > I've gone through all the code in the kernel that > > uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution > > that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. > > > > The decisio

[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I've gone through all the code in the kernel that > uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution > that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. > > The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is > what I'd suggest

[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 26-01-2011 09:31, Arnd Bergmann escreveu: > On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Greg KH wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> I've gone through all the code in the kernel that >>> uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution >>> that seems at least half-r

RE: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Palash Bandyopadhyay
l.org; linux-...@vger.kernel.org; Mikulas Patocka; net...@vger.kernel.org; Nick Bowler; Palash Bandyopadhyay; Ross Cohen; Russell King; Stuart Swales; Takahiro Hirofuchi; Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote

[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Palash Bandyopadhyay
el at vger.kernel.org; linux-x25 at vger.kernel.org; Mikulas Patocka; netdev at vger.kernel.org; Nick Bowler; Palash Bandyopadhyay; Ross Cohen; Russell King; Stuart Swales; Takahiro Hirofuchi; Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users On Wednesday 26 January 2011,

Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > I guess you're meaning cx25821, right? Right, sorry for the typo. > Palash should take a look on it and review. This is a device that allows > 12 simultaneous streams, so, I suspect that he'll need to do some > changes at the locking

Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 26-01-2011 09:31, Arnd Bergmann escreveu: > On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Greg KH wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> I've gone through all the code in the kernel that >>> uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution >>> that seems at least half-r

Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 26 January 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > I've gone through all the code in the kernel that > > uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution > > that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. > > > > The decisio

[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-25 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I've gone through all the code in the kernel that uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is what I'd suggest we do: * Remove in 2.6.39: i830, autofs3, smbfs * Move to staging now

[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-25 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I've gone through all the code in the kernel that uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is what I'd suggest we do: * Remove in 2.6.39: i830, autofs3, smbfs * Move to staging now

Re: [RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-25 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:17:14PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I've gone through all the code in the kernel that > uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution > that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. > > The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is > what I'd suggest

[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-25 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I've gone through all the code in the kernel that uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is what I'd suggest we do: * Remove in 2.6.39: i830, autofs3, smbfs * Move to staging now

[RFC 00/20] Proposal for remaining BKL users

2011-01-25 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I've gone through all the code in the kernel that uses the big kernel lock and come up with a solution that seems at least half-reasonable for each of them. The decisions are somewhat arbitrary, but here is what I'd suggest we do: * Remove in 2.6.39: i830, autofs3, smbfs * Move to staging now