On Wed, 12 May 2010 15:20:51 +0800 Miao Xie <miaox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > @@ -985,6 +984,7 @@ repeat: > * for the read-side. > */ > while (ACCESS_ONCE(tsk->mems_allowed_change_disable)) { > + task_unlock(tsk); > if (!task_curr(tsk)) > yield(); > goto repeat; Oh, I meant to mention that. No yield()s, please. Their duration is highly unpredictable. Can we do something more deterministic here? Did you consider doing all this with locking? get_mems_allowed() does mutex_lock(current->lock)? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>