Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 13:25:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs fs.h softdep.h ffs_softdep.c ffs_softdep_stub.c ffs_inode.c ffs_vfsops.c src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_extern.h inode.h ufs_inode.c Message-ID: <200105081725.NAA63422@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <57515.989309002@critter> References: <200105080742.f487gKX83668@freefall.freebsd.org> <57515.989309002@critter>
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<<On Tue, 08 May 2001 10:03:22 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said: > Why not simply notice that free space will become available (by > examining the counters, and sleep on something (lbolt ?) until > either it does or it conclusively doesn't become available ? My recollection of what Kirk told me when we discussed this at LISA was that in some circumstances the allocation can take place with locks held, resulting ultimately in deadlock. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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