Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:06:33 -0500 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: No, really, stop trying to delete slab until you've finished making slub perform as well |
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Pekka Enberg wrote: > > This patch hard locks on my 2-way 64-bit x86 machine (sysrq doesn't > respond) when I run hackbench. At that point we take the listlock and then the slab lock which is a lock inversion if we do not use a trylock here. Crap.
Hmmm.. The code already goes to the next slab if an earlier one is already locked. So I do not see how the large partial lists could be generated.
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