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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de>
Cc: mostrows@watson.ibm.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Deadlock in sungem/ip_auto_config/linkwatch
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:02:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040105110248.04ed06b7.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401051550.51063.srompf@isg.de>

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:50:50 +0100
Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de> wrote:

> Btw, what is the planned difference between rtnl_shlock() and rtnl_exlock()? 
> Even though the later is a null operation right now, I don't want to hold 
> more locks than needed in the linkwatch code.

The idea was originally to make the RTNL semaphore a read-write one,
but I doubt we'll ever make that happen and the shlock bits will just
disappear entirely.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-05 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-05 13:07 Deadlock in sungem/ip_auto_config/linkwatch Michal Ostrowski
2004-01-05 14:50 ` Stefan Rompf
2004-01-05 16:19   ` Michal Ostrowski
2004-01-05 16:50     ` Stefan Rompf
2004-01-05 19:02   ` David S. Miller [this message]

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