Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:49:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] only-one-cache-query [was Re: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5] |
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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>At that point, we will need to drop any spinlocks we hold before calling >get_free_page(), because the scheduler will only drop the global lock >automatically if we sleep and we can't sleep with any other locks held. >Now, even if we _don't_ sleep, another CPU can get in to mess with the >page cache while we are doing allocation stuff.
Yes, agreed.
Andrea Arcangeli
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