> If you have a K6 as you said putting a spinlock can' t help you to avoid
> the dquota deadlock.
???? Isn't the K6 supposed to behave like a Pentium, at least
interface-wise ?
(I may have employed the wrong terminology, if by 'spinlock' you (and the
others) mean a hardware helper device for SMP machines. Sorry, I'm a
rather recent convert. I meant bracketing the dquota [and the bdflush]
with whatever Win32's EnterCriticalSection()/LeaveCriticalSection()
translates to in Linux kernel code. Something to guarantee that only one
thread can enter a particular piece of code at a time).
-- Cyrille
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