BKL is gone... long live the BKL?

Posted Jun 25, 2024 17:23 UTC (Tue) by willy (subscriber, #9762)
In reply to: BKL is gone... long live the BKL? by intelfx
Parent article: Nested bottom-half locking for realtime kernels

It's a similar design pattern rather than being a consequence of the BKL. Had the BKL never existed, a locking scheme like this might still have been devised.