On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 04:22 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > >> Not without breaking your scheme above :) > > > > How would making sma->global_lock a mutex wreck anything? > > I don't remember the details (rik probably will), but rcu is also > already involved, so there is a non trivial chance that it would...
Ah, that might be true, the callsite might not be able to deal with it, but the proposed global/local lock thing doesn't care -- which is how I read Rik's comment above. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
