Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH PREEMPT RT] rt-mutex: fix deadlock in device mapper | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:20:30 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2017-11-20 at 16:33 -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > Is there some specific scenario where you need to call > blk_schedule_flush_plug from rt_spin_lock_fastlock?
Excellent question. What's the difference between not getting IO started because you meet a mutex with an rt_mutex under the hood, and not getting IO started because you meet a spinlock with an rt_mutex under the hood? If just doing the mutex side puts this thing back to sleep, I'm happy.
-Mike
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