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On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Larry Woodman managed to wedge the VM into a state where, on his > 4x dual core system, only 2 cores (on the same CPU) could get the > zone->lru_lock overnight. The other 6 cores on the system were > just spinning, without being able to get the lock. .. and this is almost always the result of a locking *bug*, not unfairness per se. IOW, unfairness just ends up showing the bug in the first place. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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