> Forwarding a patch written by one of our real time kernel guys. Is there some reason why sending the patch himself is too hard?
> RT is very sensitive to the order locks are taken and released > wrt read write locks. We must do > > lock(a); > lock(b); > lock(c); > > [...] > > unlock(c); > unlock(b); > unlock(a); > > otherwise bad things can happen. Maybe I'm being dense but what bad things are fixed by this patch? I can't even see a theoretical issue with the code as is. This change looks very much like fiddling for no good reason -- has a real problem been seen with this code? - R. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
