Re: Report 2 in ext4 and journal based on v5.17-rc1

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 02:23:33PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> I totally agree with you. *They aren't really locks but it's just waits
> and wakeups.* That's exactly why I decided to develop Dept. Dept is not
> interested in locks unlike Lockdep, but fouces on waits and wakeup
> sources itself. I think you get Dept wrong a lot. Please ask me more if
> you have things you doubt about Dept.

So the question is this --- do you now understand why, even though
there is a circular dependency, nothing gets stalled in the
interactions between the two wait channels?

						- Ted