Re: Locking comment on shrink_caches()

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:57:54 +0200

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:57:58PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> or else deadlock is possible. The spin_trylock is an optimization.

Indeed.

Andrea
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