From: Eric Whiting <ewhiting@amis.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-pre] Fix possible SMP race in nfs_sync_page()
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:17:49 -0700
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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
>   The following patch fixes a race in nfs_sync_page() whereby one
> thread may call the generic sync_page() and then block on a given page
> while another thread is working in mapping->a_ops->readpage().

Is this a SMP only race? Could this happen on a single processor box
under heavy load?

eric


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