Re: [PATCH] Reduce cpuset.c write_lock_irq() to read_lock()

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 21:36:12 EST


Paul M wrote:
> cpuset.c:update_nodemask() uses a write_lock_irq() on tasklist_lock to
> block concurrent forks; a read_lock() suffices and is less intrusive.

Seems reasonable to me - thanks.

> - write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); /* block fork */
> + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); /* block fork */
> if (atomic_read(&cs->count) <= ntasks)
> break; /* got enough */
> - write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); /* try again */
> + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); /* try again */

Too bad you didn't keep the nicely aligned comments aligned ;).

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