On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:49:20AM +0400, Artem Koutchine wrote: > >> 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? "Giant lock" isn't a feature that can be enabled or disabled, it indicates that the driver code is not yet ready to be run without Giant. Locking work is a major focus of development in the 5.x branch, but as you can see it's not finished yet. Kris
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