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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Peter Leckie <pleckie@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com, xfs-dev@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Use atomic_t and wait_event to track dquot pincount
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:45:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080929214524.GA12523@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080925010318.GB27997@disturbed>

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:03:18AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> This is a similar situation - if the sv_t is broken, we need to
> replace all users, not just work around one symptom of the
> brokenness. This is expecially important as the remaining users
> of sv_t's are in the log for iclog synchronisation....

The sv_t is not broken per se but a quite dangerous primitive as
people can easily miss re-checking the condition after a wakeup.

After a quick check 5 out of 10 callers of sv_wait re-check their
condition, and most do in a quite broad loop.  It might make sense
to just that lille bit of code and use prepare_wait / finish_wait
explicitly.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-29 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-24  4:28 [PATCH] Use atomic_t and wait_event to track dquot pincount Peter Leckie
2008-09-24  6:05 ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-24  6:53   ` Peter Leckie
2008-09-24  7:43     ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-24  7:26 ` [PATCH v2] " Peter Leckie
2008-09-24  7:42   ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-24  7:46     ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-24  8:03       ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-24 14:42         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-24  8:15       ` Peter Leckie
2008-09-25  1:03         ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-25  8:43           ` Peter Leckie
2008-09-25  9:12             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-26  0:34             ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-26  1:09               ` Peter Leckie
2008-09-26  1:26                 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-27  1:08                   ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-26  1:32               ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-26  1:38                 ` Peter Leckie
2008-09-26  1:44                   ` Mark Goodwin
2008-09-26  1:54                     ` Peter Leckie
2008-09-26 11:31                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-26  2:57                 ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-26  3:38                   ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-27  1:11                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-26 11:30                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-26 11:27               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-27  1:18                 ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-26  1:10             ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-26 11:28               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-29  3:08                 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-29 21:45           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-09-24 14:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-25  1:08         ` Dave Chinner

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