On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Mel Gorman wrote: > Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and policy > within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is reacquired. I > was not keen on this approach because it partially duplicates sp_alloc(). As > the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that performance critical this > patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can sleep when calling sp_alloc().
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