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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
Cc: domen@coderock.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	nacc@us.ibm.com, mochel@digitalimplant.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/14] drivers/dmapool: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE instead of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 21:31:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050306213129.0d6a1504.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29495f1d0503062101549b14e8@mail.gmail.com>

Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Also, __set_current_state() can be user here: the add_wait_queue() contains
>  > the necessary barriers.  (Grubby, but we do that in quite a few places with
>  > this particular code sequence (we should have an add_wait_queue() variant
>  > which does the add_wait_queue+__set_current_state all in one hit (but let's
>  > not, else I'll be buried in another 1000 cleanuplets))).
> 
>  Ok, I will re-spin this patch. Or would you prefer an incremental one?

Let's forget about this one while we work out whether that code is doing
what we want it to do.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-03-07  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-06 22:36 [patch 12/14] drivers/dmapool: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE instead of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE domen
2005-03-07  3:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07  5:01   ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-03-07  5:31     ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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