JFFS3 & performance
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jan 25 05:56:39 EST 2005
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:51 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > RULE: Can not have any f->sem locked if gonna lock f->alloc_sem.
>
> Or c->erase_completion_lock if you want to lock either of the above.
That's obvious -- you can't lock semaphores while you hold spinlocks.
> Or c->inocache_lock if you want to lock either of the above.
That (inocache_lock vs. erase_completion_lock) is documented in
README.Locking.
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