==> Regarding RE: [patch] aio: fix buggy put_ioctx call in aio_complete; "Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
kenneth.w.chen> I think I'm going to abandon this whole synchronize thing kenneth.w.chen> and going to put the wake up call inside ioctx_lock spin kenneth.w.chen> lock along with the other patch you mentioned above in the kenneth.w.chen> waiter path. On top of that, I have another patch attempts kenneth.w.chen> to perform wake-up only when the waiter can truly proceed kenneth.w.chen> in aio_read_evt so dribbling I/O completion doesn't kenneth.w.chen> inefficiently waking up waiter too frequently and only to kenneth.w.chen> have waiter put back to sleep again. I will dig that up and kenneth.w.chen> experiment. In the mean time, can't we simply take the context lock in wait_for_all_aios? Unless I missed something, I think that will address the reference count problem. Thanks, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
