simple-lock.
The reviewer raises the following caveat: "I believe these changes
open a non-critical race condition when adding memory to the pool
for the zone. I think what will happen is that you could have two
threads that are simultaneously adding additional memory when the
pool runs out. This appears to not be a problem, however, since
the re-aquisition of the lock will protect the list pointers."
The submitter agrees that the race is non-critical, and points out
that it already existed for the non-SMP case. He suggests that
perhaps a sleep lock (using the lock manager) should be used to
close that race. This might be worth revisiting after 3.0 is
released.
Reviewed by: dg (David Greenman)
Submitted by: tegge (Tor Egge)
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