Re: SCHED_IDLE patch is a source of DoS

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Mon, 9 Nov 1998 01:19:32 +0100

On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 03:47:58PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> >I don't think this "deadlock" is actually a real problem. Unless there
> >is some bug in the FS/VFS, a process should not call schedule() while
>
> You mean to do something like:

No, I think he meant something like:

retry:
lock()

while(not written to disk)
unlock()
goto retry

unlock()

But don't tell me that this is not always possible, please.

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