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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:30:02 -0500
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc
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To: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix pdflush thread creation upper bound.
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Peter W Morreale wrote:
> This patch fixes a race on creating pdflush threads.  Without the patch,
> it is possible to create more than MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS threads, and this
> has been observed in practice on IO loaded SMP machines.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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