[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] 4/4 i_mmap_lock spinlock2rwsem (#v9 was 1/4)

Christoph Lameter clameter at sgi.com
Fri Mar 7 12:03:42 PST 2008


On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I didn't look into this but it shows how it would be risky to make
> this change in .25. It's a bit strange that the bugcheck triggers

Yes this was never intended for .25. I think we need to split this into a 
copule of patches. One needs to get rid of the spinlock dropping, then one 
that deals with the read concurrency issues and finally one that converts 
the spinlock. Thanks for looking at it.




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