From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, <alan@redhat.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers
Date: 02 Aug 2002 19:57:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <shsr8hhqh3d.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208021023040.914-100000@home.transmeta.com>
>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> "Which is what we want in generic_file_read() (and _probably_
> generic_file_write() as well, but that's slightly more
> debatable)"
A frequent cause of complaints with the NFS client 'intr' mount option
is that grabbing the inode semaphore too is uninterruptible, and hence
even a lookup() can hang.
Would you therefore be planning on making down() interruptible by
SIGKILL?
Cheers,
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-31 11:52 manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers David Howells
2002-07-31 11:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-01 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-01 20:10 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-01 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-01 20:47 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-01 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-01 21:15 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-01 21:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-01 22:29 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-01 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-01 22:50 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-02 15:59 ` yodaiken
2002-08-01 22:35 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-01 23:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 0:31 ` Olivier Galibert
2002-08-02 8:00 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-08-02 10:02 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-02 12:38 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-08-02 15:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 16:00 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-02 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 17:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-02 17:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 17:57 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2002-08-02 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02 17:33 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-08-03 18:27 ` David Woodhouse
2002-10-17 8:32 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-02 19:27 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-02 7:31 ` Giuliano Pochini
[not found] ` <mailman.1028232841.11555.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-08-01 23:37 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-08-01 23:46 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] <0C01A29FBAE24448A792F5C68F5EA47D2D3E2B@nasdaq.ms.ensim.com>
2002-08-02 17:57 ` Paul Menage
2002-08-02 23:25 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-08-02 23:30 ` Paul Menage
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2002-08-02 18:24 Jesse Pollard
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