On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Hmm, still wouldn't the spin_on_owner() loopyness and the above need > that need_resched() check you mentioned to that it can fall into the > slow path and go to sleep? Yes, I do think that the outer loop at least should have a test for need_resched(). Please take all my patches to be pseudo-code. They've neither been compiled nor tested, and I'm just posting them in the hope that somebody else will then do things in the direction I think is the proper one ;) Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
