From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: agrawal@ais.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lingering loopback bugs?
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:50:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010303205036.N2528@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010303202458.L2528@suse.de> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103031438520.19484-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103031438520.19484-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 02:41:57PM -0500
On Sat, Mar 03 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Look for the patch I posted yesterday (hint: just remove these two
> > lines from loop_end_io_transfer)
> >
> > if (atomic_dec_and_test(&lo->lo_pending))
> > up(&lo->lo_bh_mutex);
>
> Uhh... And what will compensate for atomic_inc() in loop_make_request() in
> case of loop over block device?
There is no atomic_inc() in loop_make_request, I moved it to
count pending bh on the queue only. But hmm, we should not
be able to remove it while it has bhs in flight. Ok, I'll
rearrange this a bit again...
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-03 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-02 23:21 Linux 2.4.2ac10 Alan Cox
2001-03-03 20:16 ` lingering loopback bugs? agrawal
2001-03-03 19:24 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-03 19:41 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-03 19:50 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-03-03 20:13 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-03 19:33 ` Jens Axboe
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