On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote:

>  Is there enough contention that a global lock would
> be impractical?

That's hard to answer without actual measurement.  But remember, a global
lock would have to be acquired whenever a probe, disconnect, power change,
or tree traversal occurs on any device in the system.  Even things like 
probing for devices on different buses wouldn't be able to run in 
parallel.

Alan Stern



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