linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/11] mm: frontswap: split frontswap_shrink further to eliminate locking games

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Date:	Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:37:17 +0200
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	konrad@...nok.org
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dan.magenheimer@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] mm: frontswap: split frontswap_shrink further to
 eliminate locking games

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 07:30 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 
> On Jun 6, 2012 6:55 AM, "Sasha Levin" <levinsasha928@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Split frontswap_shrink to eliminate the locking issues in the
> original code.
> 
> Can you describe the locking issue please?

I may have worded that wrong, it's less of an "issue" and more of a
complicated code to deal with locking, specifically the extra local
variable to keep track whether we are locking or not.

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