On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:07:21 +0200 > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The irony, this is distinctly non deterministic code you're putting >> under a RT specific preempt_disable ;-) > > I know :-( > > Unfortunately, a RT behaving fix would be much more invasive and would > probably require the help of the xfs folks. For now, this just prevents > a live lock that can happen and halt the system, where it becomes > deterministic catastrophe. > > -- Steve Would it work to instead create a lock to replace the preempt_enable_rt/preempt_disable_rt pair in XFS? -- 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