On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:55:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:Funny you should mention it; locks.c uses cond_resched() assuming that it ignores the BKL. Not through needing to avoid livelock, but it does presume that other higher priority tasks contending for the lock will get a chance to take it. You'll notice the patch I posted yesterday drops the file_lock_lock around the call to cond_resched(). -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." --
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