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From:   "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 - V2] locks: avoid thundering-herd wake-ups
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I think there's also a problem with multiple tasks sharing the same
lock owner.

So, all locks are exclusive locks for the same range.  We have four
tasks.  Tasks 1 and 4 share the same owner, the others' owners are
distinct.

	- Task 1 gets a lock.
	- Task 2 gets a conflicting lock.
	- Task 3 gets another conflicting lock.  So now we the tree is
		3->2->1.
	- Task 1's lock is released.
	- Before task 2 is scheduled, task 4 acquires a new lock.
	- Task 2 waits on task 4's lock, we now have
		3->2->4.

Task 3 shouldn't be waiting--the lock it's requesting has the same owner
as the lock task 4 holds--but we fail to wake up task 3.

--b.