Re: showstopper race condition in sync() ??? [2.1.119|120]

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:15:50 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

>What would be the consequence of putting a big spinlock around the whole
>sync_dquots routine ? We would be unable to sync() the quota on two

If you have a K6 as you said putting a spinlock can' t help you to avoid
the dquota deadlock.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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