Re: [PATCH v3] eventpoll: Fix priority inversion problem

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 27 May 2025 11:08:36 +0200, Nam Cao wrote:
> The ready event list of an epoll object is protected by read-write
> semaphore:
> 
>   - The consumer (waiter) acquires the write lock and takes items.
>   - the producer (waker) takes the read lock and adds items.
> 
> The point of this design is enabling epoll to scale well with large number
> of producers, as multiple producers can hold the read lock at the same
> time.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] eventpoll: Fix priority inversion problem
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/e73f3008405b