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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: What is a livelock? (was: [patch] sys_sync livelock fix)
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From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche--list.linux-kernel@exmail.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:19:00 +0100
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Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> writes:

> Olaf Dietsche wrote:
>> 
>> I still don't get it :-(. When there is more work, this more work
>> needs to be done. So, how could livelock be considered a bug? It's
>> just overload. Or is this about the work, which must be done _after_
>> the queue is empty?
>> 
> ...
> [good explanation, so even I grasped it :-)]

Thanks to all, who tried hard explaining livelock.

Regards, Olaf.
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