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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPC SMP race: msgrcv may not return before msgsnd is done
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:37:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC05104.2020504@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.3.96.1021030162033.14229C-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com

[subject line switched back, sorry for the wrong line]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

>Don't know about his, my app does, it's only a benchmark, but I do see bad
>behaviour from time to time (total lockups) on SMP machines.
>
>  
>
Could you try Bernhard's patch? Lockless receive is nice, but fixing the 
found race would be really tricky, and is probably not worth the effort.

--
    Manfred



  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-30 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-30 17:57 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Manfred Spraul
2002-10-30 21:22 ` linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bill Davidsen
2002-10-30 21:37   ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-30 17:28 [PATCH] IPC SMP race: msgrcv may not return before msgsnd is done Bernhard Kaindl
2002-10-30 21:20 ` Bill Davidsen

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