On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:22:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Opterons seem to be particularly prone to lock starvation where a cacheline > gets captured in a single package for ever.
AIUI that phenomenon is universal to NUMA. Maybe it's time we reexamined our locking algorithms in the light of fairness considerations. -- wli - 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/
