[PATCH] Re: [dm-devel] kmalloc after down_write?

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Fri Nov 19 20:59:43 UTC 2004


On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:51:00PM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote:
> Personally, I think this is one area where we really don't have to worry about 
> lock contention. 

Indeed it's well down the list.  The main problem with snapshots
is the amount of kernel memory they require.

Alasdair
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