Re: [PATCH 05/11] mm: frontswap: split frontswap_shrink further toeliminate locking games

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Thu Jun 07 2012 - 14:36:51 EST


On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:37:17PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 07:30 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 6, 2012 6:55 AM, "Sasha Levin" <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Split frontswap_shrink to eliminate the locking issues in the
> > original code.
> >
> > Can you describe the locking issue please?
>
> I may have worded that wrong, it's less of an "issue" and more of a
> complicated code to deal with locking, specifically the extra local
> variable to keep track whether we are locking or not.

So "simplying the locking"?
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