Re: Efficient IPC mechanism on Linux

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:59:44PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> About the implementation - the locking looks very wrong: you miss the
> page_table_lock in all the pte walking, you take a totally worthless
> lock_kernel() all over the place for no good reason, and the

sorry for the self followup, but I just read another message where you
mention 2.2, if that was for 2.2 the locking was the ok.

all other problems remains though.

Andrea

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