[PATCH 3/9] nvme: change namespaces_mutext to namespaces_rwsem

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Sun Feb 11 03:17:56 PST 2018


> namespaces_mutext is used to synchronize the operations on ctrl
> namespaces list. Most of the time, it is a read operation. It is
> better to change it from mutex to rwsem.
> 
> On the other hand, the namespaces mutex could introduce circular
> dependency easily.

On the other hand of what?

Also, can you give an example of such?



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