Re: [GIT, RFC] Killing the Big Kernel Lock

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> I've spent some time continuing the work of the people on Cc and many others
> to remove the big kernel lock from Linux and I now have bkl-removal branch
> in my git tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git
> that lets me run a kernel on my quad-core machine with the only users of the BKL
> being mostly obscure device driver modules.

	config USB
	        tristate "Support for Host-side USB"
	        depends on USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD && BKL

Well, that's very interesting definition of "obscure" :)

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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