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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: How stable is 7 now? How to cvs it?
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:07:42AM +0400, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have heard that 7 is very stable since november and
> much better (perfomance wise since GIANT lock have been
> deleted completely) since that time.
> 
> Is it true?

No, it is still lurking in some corners of the kernel, but almost all
workloads no longer require it.

Kris