From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:31:45 +1000

> If we hit a writer just as they begin resizing, we could be here for
> quite a while.

Yes, we discussed this a bit on IRC.

> In fact because we expect each writer to stick around for a
> relatively long time, we could use a new seqlock primitive that just
> spun until the LSB becomes zero again.

Indeed, and put a cpu_relax() in there.
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