On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Sez who? If it's not documented in the kernel source, I don't believe
> it.
The notifier interface is supposed to be *light weight*. Adding locks
that get taken on every call basically changes the concept entirely. The
cache misses notifiers add are measurable overhead, with locks being far
worse.
-ben
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