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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/7] tabled: retry conflicting locks
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:53:17 -0500
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To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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On 01/14/2010 11:13 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> This problem was with us for a while, and even with this fix our start-up
> is not reliable. But at least we will not be 100% guaranteed to hang as
> before when restarting too quickly. So although the whole area needs some
> serious reworking, this specific case was just too annoying to let it
> continue.
>
> Signed-Off-By: Pete Zaitcev<zaitcev@redhat.com>
>
> ---
>   server/cldu.c |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This is not correct.  CLD has blocking locks.  You issue the LOCK op, 
and will be notified when you have acquired the lock, possibly hours or 
days later.  There is no need to retry anything...

	Jeff