Re: Qustion about being "Giant-locked"

From: Artem Koutchine <matrix_at_itlegion.ru>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:49:20 +0400
>> While booting i see many drivers marked
>> as [Giant-locked].
>> Is being Giant-locked good or bad what are the
>> implications?
>It's not good if you have a computer with multiple processors.

Well, i do have dual xeon with HT (4 logical CPUs). Is there
any way to fight giant-locked drivers or i just have to wait
until the driver will be rewritten w/o Giant? Or there are
some kernel options to disable Giant lock in the drivers?

Regards,
Artem
Received on Mon Apr 05 2004 - 22:53:37 UTC

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