From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [kerneloops] regression in 2.6.27 wrt "lock_page" and the "hwclock" program
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:00:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081012200004.GI10429@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081005103826.6771540a@infradead.org>
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:38:26AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I get the impression from the code that it really wants a "don't
> schedule me out" rather than "this is a lock".
Yes, I think so.
> it can do better.
Any suggestion how to nicely implement "don't schedule me out"?
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-12 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-05 0:44 [kerneloops] regression in 2.6.27 wrt "lock_page" and the "hwclock" program Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-05 4:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-05 15:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-05 17:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-05 17:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-12 20:00 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2008-10-12 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-13 14:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-14 21:04 ` Karel Zak
2008-10-13 15:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-13 15:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-13 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-13 16:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-13 16:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-13 16:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-12 19:46 ` Karel Zak
2008-10-05 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
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