On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:13 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Well, at least we do unless you enable that broken paravirt support. I'm > not at all clear on why CONFIG_PARAVIRT wants to use inferior locks, but I > don't much care. Because the virtual cpu that has the ticket might not get scheduled for a while, even though another vcpu with a spinner is scheduled. The whole (para)virt is a nightmare in that respect. -- 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