Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:01:50 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Cyrille Chepelov <> | Subject | Re: showstopper race condition in sync() ??? [2.1.119|120] |
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> If you have a K6 as you said putting a spinlock can' t help you to avoid > the dquota deadlock.
???? Isn't the K6 supposed to behave like a Pentium, at least interface-wise ?
(I may have employed the wrong terminology, if by 'spinlock' you (and the others) mean a hardware helper device for SMP machines. Sorry, I'm a rather recent convert. I meant bracketing the dquota [and the bdflush] with whatever Win32's EnterCriticalSection()/LeaveCriticalSection() translates to in Linux kernel code. Something to guarantee that only one thread can enter a particular piece of code at a time).
-- Cyrille
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