Re: PATCH: rd - deadlock removal

2000-11-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > The second is more elegant in that it side steps the problem by > > giving rd.c a make_request function instead of using the default > > _make_request. This means that io_request_lock is simply never > > claimed my rd. > > And this solution is

Re: PATCH: rd - deadlock removal

2000-11-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Nov 09 2000, Neil Brown wrote: [snip] > DEADLOCK > I have two patches which address this problem. > The first is simple and simply drops ui_request_lock before calling > getblk. This may be the appropriate one to use given the code > freeze. rd st