Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix pdflush thread creation upper bound.

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Dec 31 2008 - 16:30:32 EST


Peter W Morreale wrote:
This patch fixes a race on creating pdflush threads. Without the patch,
it is possible to create more than MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS threads, and this
has been observed in practice on IO loaded SMP machines.


Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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