Re: [PATCH] io stalls

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 21:29, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> this will avoid get_request_wait_wakeup to mess the wakeup, so we can
> wakep_nr(rq.count) safely.
> 
> then there's the last issue raised by Chris, that is if we get request
> released faster than the tasks can run, still we can generate a not
> perfect fairness. My solution to that is to change wake_up to have a
> nr_exclusive not obeying to the try_to_wakeup retval. that should
> guarantee exact FIFO then, but it's a minor issue because the requests
> shouldn't be released systematically in a flood. So I'm leaving it
> opened for now, the others already addressed should be the major ones.

I think the only time we really need to wakeup more than one waiter is
when we hit the q->batch_request mark.  After that, each new request
that is freed can be matched with a single waiter, and we know that any
previously finished requests have probably already been matched to their
own waiter.

-chris