On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 20:31 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: Talking with Thomas, the proper solution is: > Then we have this lovely code: > > block/blk-ioc.c: put_io_context_active() > > retry: > spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&ioc->lock, flags, 1); > hlist_for_each_entry(icq, n, &ioc->icq_list, ioc_node) { > if (icq->flags & ICQ_EXITED) > continue; > if (spin_trylock(icq->q->queue_lock)) { > ioc_exit_icq(icq); > spin_unlock(icq->q->queue_lock); > } else { > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->lock, flags); > cpu_relax(); s/cpu_relax/cpu_chill/ -- Steve > goto retry; > } > } > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html