Re: [PATCH] IPC SMP race: msgrcv may not return before msgsnd is

Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:37:08 +0100


[subject line switched back, sorry for the wrong line]

Bill Davidsen wrote:

>Don't know about his, my app does, it's only a benchmark, but I do see bad
>behaviour from time to time (total lockups) on SMP machines.
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>
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Could you try Bernhard's patch? Lockless receive is nice, but fixing the
found race would be really tricky, and is probably not worth the effort.

--
    Manfred

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