>Hi!
>
>> >What would be the consequence of putting a big spinlock around the whole
>> >sync_dquots routine ? We would be unable to sync() the quota on two
>>
>> If you have a K6 as you said putting a spinlock can' t help you to avoid
>> the dquota deadlock.
>
>Ugh. Pardon my ignorance, but what does have CPU type to do with
>generic code, such as spinlocks() and quotas?
I thought that K6s don' t support SMP and so spinlocks can' t help to fix
_his_ problem on _his_ machine.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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