Re: [PATCH v8 07/19] locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation

From: Yuyang Du
Date: Wed Jun 05 2019 - 03:53:07 EST


Hi Waiman,

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 00:00, Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With my patchset applied, the reader-writer ordering is still supposed
> to be preserved. Of course, there can be exceptions depending on the
> exact timing, but we can't rely on that to prevent deadlock.

This is exactly what I want to know. Thanks for the reply.

Thanks,
Yuyang