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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:57:54 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:57:58PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> or else deadlock is possible.  The spin_trylock is an optimization.

Indeed.

Andrea