Re: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but...

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 10:38:00 EST


On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, William Montgomery 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?
> >
> Two questions:
> 1) where does repeat label go?

(to the place which reloads the list pointer from the global list head.)

> 2) since there is a INODE(tmp)->i_count++ dont we also need a i_count--?

it's implicit in iput().

-- mingo

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