On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:05:54PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Oct 8, 2006, at 1:10 AM, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> 
> >- Specificdata_setspecific() and the functions using it should also  
> >work
> >  (and possibly fail) if called from a non-sleepable context.   
> >Either a
> >  flag (WAIT/NOWAIT) or a special function xxx_nowait().
> 
> Do you need INTERRUPT context?  If so, it's non-trivial to support  
> that, and it points to a need to restructure the calling code.
> 
> Or is it simply a matter of not wanting to block while holding other  
> locks?

The latter.  Call xxx_set() and xxx_get() with locks held.

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)