Re: [RFC v7] wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation

From: Chris Mason
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 10:49:19 EST


On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 09:34 -0500, Chris Mason wrote:

> > > > So I think we're saying that
> > > > lock_page_killable-avoid-lost-wakeups.patch actually did fix the bug?
> > >
> > > I think yes,
> > >
>
> Our test case that was able to reliably trigger the bug was fixed by
> lock_page_killable-avoid-lost-wakeups.patch.
>
> I'll ask them to test v7 as well. The run takes about a day, so
> confirmation will take a bit.

v7 went through a total of 5 runs and passed all of them. Unpatched we
would fail after one run, so I think this does fix it.

-chris




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