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| author | kay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2004-11-06 14:28:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-04-26 22:16:40 -0700 |
| commit | 2b41e68a08548ce44b4d145900dab2bb04cd34f7 (patch) | |
| tree | f2e96c9f150775e3673891d38a5af23d4246c826 /HOWTO-udev_for_dev | |
| parent | 482b0ecd8fcc2651c003c6f1ae9a2d3301ecf34a (diff) | |
[PATCH] replace tdb database by simple lockless file database
This makes the udev operation completely lockless by storing a
file for every node in /dev/.udevdb/* This solved the problem
with deadlocking concurrent udev processes waiting for each other
to release the file lock under heavy load.
Diffstat (limited to 'HOWTO-udev_for_dev')
| -rw-r--r-- | HOWTO-udev_for_dev | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/HOWTO-udev_for_dev b/HOWTO-udev_for_dev index 58bf2d4e8c..9833dd1411 100644 --- a/HOWTO-udev_for_dev +++ b/HOWTO-udev_for_dev @@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE the end of this file. - make sure the /etc/udev/udev.conf file lists the udev_root as "/dev/" - and the udev_db as "/dev/.udev.tdb". It should contain the + and the udev_db as "/dev/.udevdb". It should contain the following lines in order to work properly. udev_root="/dev/" - udev_db="/dev/.udev.tdb" + udev_db="/dev/.udevdb" - reboot into a 2.6 kernel and watch udev create all of the initial device nodes in /dev |