When we find an existing lock which conflicts with a request,
and the request wants to wait, we currently add the request
to a list. When the lock is removed, the whole list is woken.
This can cause the thundering-herd problem.
To reduce the problem, we make use of the (new) fact that
a pending re
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 08:19:26AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09 2018, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > I think you could simplify the code a lot by maintaining the tree so
> > that it always satisfies the condition that waiters are always strictly
> > "weaker" than their descendents, so that
On Thu, Aug 09 2018, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-08-09 at 12:04 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
>> When we find an existing lock which conflicts with a request,
>> and the request wants to wait, we currently add the request
>> to a list. When the lock is removed, the whole list is woken.
>> This ca
On Thu, Aug 09 2018, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:04:41PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
>> When we find an existing lock which conflicts with a request,
>> and the request wants to wait, we currently add the request
>> to a list. When the lock is removed, the whole list is woken.
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:04:41PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> When we find an existing lock which conflicts with a request,
> and the request wants to wait, we currently add the request
> to a list. When the lock is removed, the whole list is woken.
> This can cause the thundering-herd problem.
> T
On Thu, 2018-08-09 at 12:04 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> When we find an existing lock which conflicts with a request,
> and the request wants to wait, we currently add the request
> to a list. When the lock is removed, the whole list is woken.
> This can cause the thundering-herd problem.
> To reduc
When we find an existing lock which conflicts with a request,
and the request wants to wait, we currently add the request
to a list. When the lock is removed, the whole list is woken.
This can cause the thundering-herd problem.
To reduce the problem, we make use of the (new) fact that
a pending re
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