Re: -rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6

Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-04T10:34:55Z

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:46:33PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:42, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> > > > the issue with batching in 2.4, is that it is blocking at 0 and waking
> > > > at batch_requests. But it's not blocking new get_request to eat
> > > > requests in the way back from 0 to batch_requests. I mean, there are
> > > > two directions, when we move from batch_requests to 0 get_requests
> > > > should return requests. in the way back from 0 to batch_requests the
> > > > get_request should block (and it doesn't in 2.4, that is the problem)
> > > do you see a chance to fix this up in 2.4?
> > Nick posted a patch to do so the other day and asked people to test.
> Silly mcp. His mail was CC'ed to me :( ... F*ck huge inbox.

I was probably not CC'ed, I'll search for the email (and I was
travelling the last few days so I didn't read every single l-k email yet
sorry ;)

Andrea