Messages in this thread | | | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: Race conditions galore (2.0.33 and possibly 2.1.x) | Date | Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:41:24 -0500 (EST) |
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Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote Linus Torvalds: >Ahh, the md driver does indeed do something like this. The md driver >will clear the lock bit without ever waking up anybody that waits on it, >as far as I can tell.
Gee, I wonder if this is what causes our news server (sparc) to occassionaly get a task that takes over the machine -- priority -33.
--Ricky
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