Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2

Ingo Molnar
2000-09-25T14:13:57Z

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I was _only_ talking about the blkdev hangs [...]

i guess this was just miscommunication. It never 'hung', it just performed
reads with 20k/sec or so. (without any writes being done in the
background.) A 'hang' for me is a deadlock or lockup, not a slowdown.

> that caused you to unplug the queue at each reschedule in tux and that
> Eric reported me for the SG driver (and I very much hope that with
> EXCLUSIVE gone away and the wait_on_* fixed those hangs will go away
> because I don't see anything else wrong at this moment).

okay, i'll test this.

Ingo