On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 1:04 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It doesn't fix my "kernel compiles go single-threaded" issue. I ended up just bisecting it. The "make goes slow" problem bisects down to b667b8673443 ("pipe: Advance tail pointer inside of wait spinlock in pipe_read()"). I assume it's the added "do_wakeup = 0" (not the spinlock) that ends up having some subtle issue. Very strange, but there it is. Linus