2010/6/29 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>:
quoted text > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 15:10 +0800, shenghui wrote:
>> I think some lock on the metadata can fix this issue, but we may
>> change plenty of code to add support for lock. I think the easist
>> way is just substacting nr_running before dequing tasks.
>
> But all that is fully serialized by the rq->lock.. so I'm really not
> seeing how this can happen.
>
>
>
I wonder is there any chance set_next_entity() can get NULL for
parameter se if so?
And will you please give me some instructions on where rq->lock
is required?
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Thanks and Best Regards,
shenghui
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