From: Eric Whiting <ewhiting@amis.com>
To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Cc: NFS maillist <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-pre] Fix possible SMP race in nfs_sync_page()
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:17:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF88C7D.F0398F10@amis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15864.25714.339197.675770@charged.uio.no
Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> The following patch fixes a race in nfs_sync_page() whereby one
> thread may call the generic sync_page() and then block on a given page
> while another thread is working in mapping->a_ops->readpage().
Is this a SMP only race? Could this happen on a single processor box
under heavy load?
eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-12 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-12 10:26 [PATCH 2.4.21-pre] Fix possible SMP race in nfs_sync_page() Trond Myklebust
2002-12-12 13:17 ` Eric Whiting [this message]
2002-12-12 13:22 ` Trond Myklebust
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