Re: [PATCH 02/12] Btrfs: Kill allocate_wait in space_info

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The purpose of maybe_allocate_chunk was that there is no way to know if some
> other CPU is currently trying to allocate a chunk for the given space info.  We
> could have two cpu's come inot do_chunk_alloc at relatively the same time and
> end up allocating twice the amount of space, which is why I did the waitqueue
> thing.  It seems like this is still a possibility with your patch.  Thanks,
>
This is impossible because the very first thing do_chunk_alloc does is
lock the chunk_mutex.

Yan, Zheng
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