Re: [PATCH] io stalls (was: -rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6)

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 19:33:57 EST


On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:39:23PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> + if (!waitqueue_active(&q->wait_for_requests[rw]))
> + clear_queue_full(q, rw);

you've an smp race above, the smp safe implementation is this:

        if (!waitqueue_active(&q->wait_for_requests[rw])) {
                clear_queue_full(q, rw);
                mb();
                if (unlikely(waitqueue_active(&q->wait_for_requests[rw])))
                        wake_up(&q->wait_for_requests[rw]);
        }

I'm also unsure what the "waited" logic does, it doesn't seem necessary.

Andrea
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