Re: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:18:41PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> If you need to block, take a mutex around the notifier calls.
> (I nearly typed semaphore there, sorry Ingo! :-)

I'm arguing against adding the mutex.  We don't need things like munmap() 
on every cpu doing a down_read() on system wide semaphore.

		-ben
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