Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:28:56 -0400 | From | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/11] mm: frontswap: split frontswap_shrink further to eliminate locking games |
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:37:17PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 07:30 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > On Jun 6, 2012 6:55 AM, "Sasha Levin" <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Split frontswap_shrink to eliminate the locking issues in the > > original code. > > > > Can you describe the locking issue please? > > I may have worded that wrong, it's less of an "issue" and more of a > complicated code to deal with locking, specifically the extra local > variable to keep track whether we are locking or not.
So "simplying the locking"?
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