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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Lou Langholtz <ldl@aros.net>
Cc: Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 NBD driver: remove send/recieve race for request
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:43:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030807234346.12eb3724.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F334396.7030008@aros.net>

Lou Langholtz <ldl@aros.net> wrote:
>
> >+				spin_unlock(&lo->queue_lock);
>  >+				printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: request %p: still in use (%d), waiting...\n",
>  >+				    lo->disk->disk_name, req, req->ref_count);
>  >+				schedule_timeout(HZ); /* wait a second */
>  >
>  Isn't there something more deterministic than just waiting a second and 
>  hoping things clear up that you can use here?

you'll be needing a set_current_state() before calling schedule_timeout()
anyway.  It will fall straight through as it is now.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-08  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-05 16:51 [PATCH] 2.6.0 NBD driver: remove send/recieve race for request Lou Langholtz
2003-08-05 19:37 ` Paul Clements
2003-08-05 22:48   ` Lou Langholtz
2003-08-06  0:51     ` Paul Clements
2003-08-06  7:34       ` Lou Langholtz
2003-08-08  5:02         ` Paul Clements
2003-08-08  5:27           ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-08 17:05             ` Paul Clements
2003-08-08  6:30           ` Lou Langholtz
2003-08-08  6:43             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-08-08  6:59             ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 15:00               ` Paul Clements
2003-08-25  9:58                 ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-08 16:47             ` Paul Clements
2003-08-08 20:07               ` [PATCH 2.6.0-test2-mm] nbd: fix send/receive/shutdown/disconnect races Paul Clements
2003-08-09 22:10                 ` [PATCH 2.4.22-pre] nbd: fix race conditions Paul Clements

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