On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:03 AM, sandeep kumar <coolsandyforyou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > Can any one tell me the significance of BKL? > > -- > With regards, > Sandeep Kumar Anantapalli, In a very small nutshell, the BKL makes it so that only one thread of the kernel can be running at any one time. It made it nice for kernel/driver developers to not have to worry about SMP issues when running on multiple CPUs. But at the same time it makes the kernel very inefficient when executing in an SMP system. Matt Schulte _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
