From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263938AbTFBVCn (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:02:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263953AbTFBVCn (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:02:43 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:14475 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263938AbTFBVCj (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:02:39 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:13:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: Marc-Christian Petersen cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] epoll race fix for 2.5 ... In-Reply-To: <200306022242.22879.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Message-ID: References: <200306022242.22879.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2003 22:27, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > Hi Davide, > > > The was a race triggered by heavy MT usage that could have caused > > processes in D state. Bad Davide, bad ... > > Also, the semaphore is now per-epoll-fd and not global. Plus some comment > > adjustment. > > Updated patches for 2.4.{20,21-rc6} are here : > > http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html#patches > is it just me or am I too silly to follow your release name changes? ;) I know :( the page is a mess :-) I should definitely restructure it - Davide