Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun May 11 2008 - 10:00:43 EST



* Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Current XFS CVS has a fix from myself and Christoph that gets rid of
> the l_flushsema and replaces it with a staggered wakeup of each task
> that's waiting as the previously woken task clears the critical
> section.

the solution is to reduce semaphore usage by converting them to mutexes.
Is anyone working on removing legacy semaphore use from XFS?

Ingo
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