The kernel's software-interrupt ("softirq") mechanism was added prior to the 1.0 kernel release, but it implements a design seen in systems that were already old when Linux was born. For much of that ...
The big kernel lock (BKL) is a distant memory now but, for years, it was one of the more intractable problems faced by the kernel development community. The end of the BKL does not mean that the ...
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