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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH] fix potential latency issues in JBD's journal code
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:20:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080706122058.GA26084@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080705223021.02735dc0@infradead.org>

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 10:30:21PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> it's debatable. Because this submit-bh() will sometimes block... it
> wouldn't get IO started for that case. I think this is where I'd like
> Jens to say what he thinks the rules are; clearly the elevator needs to
> treat all of these guys as sync, but maybe the plugging should be ..
> flexible.

Stupid idea.... maybe the unplugging should be done on the wait side?
Has this been considered already?

						- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-06 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-05  2:29 PATCH] fix potential latency issues in JBD's journal code Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-05  5:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-05 14:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-05 15:18   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-06  4:15 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-06  5:30   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-06 12:20     ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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