Subject: Re: generic hook infrastructure
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/07/2006 22:21:13
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:43:33AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> 
> every small functionalities adds small overheads.
> and finally, you'll get a heavy primitive like lockmgr.
> 

Agreed, I did like the idea of having the masked & one-shot version
and a lean just run the hooks with no fancy stuff version.  It's easy
to say it's only a couple of ifs but the cumulative effect could be
large as Yamamoto-san notes.

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Brett Lymn