From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
olof@austin.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@osdl.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:42:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5410.1109158967@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050222134010.4c286e64.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> wrt this down_read/down_write/down_read deadlock: iirc, the reason why
> down_write() takes precedence over down_read() is to avoid the permanent
> writer starvation which would occur if there is heavy down_read() traffic.
down_write() doesn't actually take precedence over down_read() as such. The
rwsems try to implement a strict FIFO queue (the fairness thing).
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 19:06 [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 22:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 23:08 ` Greg KH
2005-02-23 11:24 ` David Howells
2005-02-22 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 22:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-22 21:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 22:42 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 23:23 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 11:39 ` David Howells
2005-02-23 16:22 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 18:44 ` David Howells
2005-02-23 14:49 ` Joe Korty
2005-02-23 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 17:10 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 17:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-23 18:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 18:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 19:12 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-24 0:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:37 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 11:42 ` David Howells [this message]
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