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SubjectRe: 2.6.26-rc4: RIP find_pid_ns+0x6b/0xa0


On Tue, 27 May 2008, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
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> But this will only help until preemptible spinlocks arrive, right?

I don't think we will ever have preemptible spinlocks.

If you preempt spinlocks, you have serious issues with contention and
priority inversion etc, and you basically need to turn them into sleeping
mutexes. So now you also need to do interrupts as sleepable threads etc
etc.

And it would break the existing non-preempt RCU usage anyway.

Yeah, maybe the RT people try to do that, but quite frankly, it is insane.
Spinlocks are *different* from sleeping locks, for a damn good reason.

Linus


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