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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	menage@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reduce cpuset.c write_lock_irq() to read_lock()
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:35:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070523183552.e0ae95db.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070524012316.98BFB3D65BA@localhost>

Paul M wrote:
> cpuset.c:update_nodemask() uses a write_lock_irq() on tasklist_lock to
> block concurrent forks; a read_lock() suffices and is less intrusive.

Seems reasonable to me - thanks.

> -		write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);		/* block fork */
> +		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);		/* block fork */
>  		if (atomic_read(&cs->count) <= ntasks)
>  			break;				/* got enough */
> -		write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);	/* try again */
> +		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);	/* try again */

Too bad you didn't keep the nicely aligned comments aligned ;).

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24  1:23 [PATCH] Reduce cpuset.c write_lock_irq() to read_lock() Paul Menage
2007-05-24  1:35 ` Paul Jackson [this message]

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