Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++) | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:15:52 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
| |
> The file locking use real IO and so when you ask for a lock, if the loc= > k is already owned, you fall in a D state.
That seems odd. They should be using interruptible sleeps so you can interrupt the task waiting for the lock, surely.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |