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From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"reiserfs-dev@namesys.com" <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sync_sb_inodes cleanup
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:35:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115739301.6810.15.camel@betsy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115737238.4456.320.camel@tribesman.namesys.com>

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 19:00 +0400, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:

> This patch makes generic_sync_sb_inodes to spin lock itself.
> Please, apply this patch. It helps reiser4 to get rid of some oddities.
>
> [snip]
>
>  {
>         const unsigned long start = jiffies;    /* livelock avoidance */
>  
> +       spin_lock(&inode_lock);

Looking at what jiffies is used for, it is probably is not a big deal,
but you should move the assignment of start to after acquiring the lock,
as that could take quite some time.

	Robert Love



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-10 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-10 15:00 [PATCH] sync_sb_inodes cleanup Vladimir Saveliev
2005-05-10 15:35 ` Robert Love [this message]
2005-05-11  7:37   ` Vladimir Saveliev
2005-05-11 17:49     ` Robert Love
2005-05-13  9:25       ` Vladimir Saveliev

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