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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, spamtrap@knobisoft.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix pdflush thread creation upper bound.
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:30:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <495BE45A.2000900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081231191011.30792.17202.stgit@hermosa.site>

Peter W Morreale wrote:
> This patch fixes a race on creating pdflush threads.  Without the patch,
> it is possible to create more than MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS threads, and this
> has been observed in practice on IO loaded SMP machines.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-31 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-31 19:10 [PATCH 0/2] fix pdflush races and enhancement v2 Peter W Morreale
2008-12-31 19:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] Fix pdflush thread creation upper bound Peter W Morreale
2008-12-31 21:30   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-12-31 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add /proc controls for pdflush threads Peter W Morreale
2008-12-31 21:35   ` Rik van Riel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-30 23:12 [PATCH 0/2] pdflush fix and enhancement Peter W Morreale
2008-12-30 23:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] Fix pdflush thread creation upper bound Peter W Morreale

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