On Tue, 8 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > This patch trades a page flag for a significant improvement in the unlock_page > fastpath. Various problems in the previous version were spotted by Hugh and > Ben (and fixed in this one). > > Comments?
Seems there's still a bug there. I get hangs on the page lock, on i386 and on x86_64 and on powerpc: sometimes they unhang themselves after a while (presume other activity does the wakeup). Obvious even while booting (Starting udevd). Sorry, not had time to investigate. Hugh - 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/
