On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Obviously. Â But I wasn't about the server trying to acquire a lock > > held by a client. Â I was talking about a client trying to acquire a > > lock held by _another_ client. > > > > If this coincides with the server (or some other task which the server > > is depending on) being frozen before the clients, the freezer has a > > problem. > > True, but that case can only happen if servers are frozen before clients. > You don't need a full dependency graph. A simple set sequence of two > classes of tasks will do.
Just to make things more complicated... Since a server isn't restricted in what it can do, what happens when one server depends on another server? Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
