Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Jens Axboe
2003-05-28T07:23:03Z

On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:13, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> > If you leave nr_requests as it is, I don't see why it should not boot
> > with batch_requests == 0.
> > I can't see in all of these mails whether backing out akpm's starvation
> > patch makes the problem go away. Does it?
> If you mean

> "http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c@1.29?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-2y|cset@1.160|hist/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c"
>
> that one, the answer is YES.

That's the one, yes. Andrew, looks like your patch brought out some
really bad behaviour.

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Jens Axboe