On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>something like:
>
> + if (current->need_resched) {
> + INODE(tmp)->i_count++;
> + spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
> + schedule();
> + iput(tmp);
> + goto repeat;
>
>is there any problem with this?
It has the same problem as buffer cache if browsing the whole list takes
more than one timeslice. With inodes this shouldn't happen in RL though. I
think it should work. The repeat has to restart from the top of the list
to revalidate "entry".
A more correct approch probably would be to allow "goto repeat" only at
once to avoid the deadlock condition in R state.
Andrea
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