From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from snowcrash.cymru.net (snowcrash.cymru.net [163.164.160.3]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21880 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:50:20 -0500 Message-Id: From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:45:36 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Linus Torvalds" at Jan 10, 99 10:35:10 am Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: sct@redhat.com, saw@msu.ru, andrea@e-mind.com, steve@netplus.net, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, damonbrent@earthlink.net, reese@isn.net, kalle.andersson@mbox303.swipnet.se, Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr, bmccann@indusriver.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > point where we would otherwise deadlock on the writer semaphore it's much > better to just allow nested writes. I suspect all filesystems can already > handle nested writes - they are a lot easier to handle than truly > concurrent ones. Suspect makes me kind of nervous. Especially so close to 2.2 and given the normal results of making a bad file system error. Alan -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org