On 6 January 2011 09:38, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> 2011/1/5 Ng Oon-Ee :
>> At this point in time leaving it enabled for compatibility in kernel26
>> is fine IMO. Those who need it disabled for specific reasons (the one I
>> can think of is task latency for audio) should already be used to
>> compil
At this point the BKL doesn't cause much performance loss:
"The Big Kernel Lock is a giant lock that was introduced in Linux 2.0,
when Alan Cox introduced SMP support for first time. But it was just
an step to achieve SMP scalability - only one process can run kernel
code at the same time in Linux
2011/1/5 Ng Oon-Ee :
> At this point in time leaving it enabled for compatibility in kernel26
> is fine IMO. Those who need it disabled for specific reasons (the one I
> can think of is task latency for audio) should already be used to
> compiling patched kernels, so it wouldn't be a big deal for n
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 19:45 -0500, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 07:23 PM, Jan Steffens wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Matthew Monaco
> > wrote:
> >> Devs,
> >>
> >> Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's without
> >> it for a while now.
> >>
> >
>
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:28:42 -0600 Yaro Kasear wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 05:51:02 pm Matthew Monaco wrote:
> > Devs,
> >
> > Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's
> > without it for a while now.
>
> What is BKL?
The Big Kernel Lock, search the Web there
On 01/05/2011 07:23 PM, Jan Steffens wrote:
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
Devs,
Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's without
it for a while now.
Leave it enabled. It's important for compatibility with older drivers.
The thing is, and
On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 05:51:02 pm Matthew Monaco wrote:
> Devs,
>
> Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's without
> it for a while now.
What is BKL?
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> Devs,
>
> Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's without
> it for a while now.
>
Leave it enabled. It's important for compatibility with older drivers.
Devs,
Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's without it
for a while now.
Hi, I noticed that said package is out of date, am attaching a slightly
updated PKGBUILD for the latest version here (compiles and runs fine on
my machine x86_64).
Normally I'd wait, but the maintainer is Aaron and as I understand he's
not very active round these parts anymore.
P.S. - hope the at
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