Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]

Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-19T16:55:43Z

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:21:17AM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote:
> I'm at 2 days uptime now, and have not seen the process-table-hang.
> Looks like this fixed it. Previously I would get a hang in the first
> day or so. I'm using your alpha-numa-3 and rwsem-generic-4 against
> 2.4.4pre3.

good, thanks for the report.

BTW, if you upgrade to 2.4.4pre4 you can apply those two patches:

ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.4pre4aa1/00_alpha-numa-4
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.4pre4aa1/00_rwsem-generic-6

really the first is not necessary anymore unless you're using a wildfire. The
second also resurrect the optimized rwsemaphores for all archs but alpha and
ia32.

Andrea