Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:57:54 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches() |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:57:58PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > or else deadlock is possible. The spin_trylock is an optimization.
Indeed.
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