From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Peter Wächtler" <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug report] NFS and uninterruptable wait states
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 18:14:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6951.999537241@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B93B95E.F30F1F8B@loewe-komp.de>
In-Reply-To: <3B93B95E.F30F1F8B@loewe-komp.de> <m3zo8cp93a.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> <01090310483100.26387@faldara> <32526.999534512@redhat.com>
pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de said:
> Because historically the 'D' meant "wait on _D_isk" 8-)
Waiting uninterruptibly on a local device is somewhat saner than waiting
uninterruptibly on a network server. If you ignore the cases where we end up
in D state waiting for a removable medium which has been removed, of course.
These days, disk technology is sufficiently complex that the cop-out of
saying "nothing will ever go wrong, let's not bother to implement the
cleanup code" is probably no longer appropriate even there.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-03 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-03 10:48 [bug report] NFS and uninterruptable wait states Phillip Susi
2001-09-03 15:11 ` Peter Wächtler
2001-09-03 15:17 ` Peter Wächtler
2001-09-03 15:50 ` Doug McNaught
2001-09-03 11:55 ` Phillip Susi
2001-09-03 17:42 ` Doug McNaught
2001-09-03 16:28 ` David Woodhouse
2001-09-03 17:09 ` Peter Wächtler
2001-09-03 17:14 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-09-03 17:50 ` Doug McNaught
2001-09-10 13:53 ` Jan Hudec
2001-09-03 22:11 ` Sound Blaster Live - OSS or Not? Thiago Vinhas de Moraes
2001-09-03 22:26 ` Tim Jansen
2001-09-03 22:26 ` Thiago Vinhas de Moraes
2001-09-03 22:51 ` Robert Love
2001-09-04 3:38 ` Garett Spencley
2001-09-03 23:03 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-09-03 23:35 ` machack
2001-09-04 10:54 ` Daryl F
2001-09-04 12:09 ` rui.p.m.sousa
2001-09-04 17:08 ` Thiago Vinhas de Moraes
2001-09-04 17:36 ` rui.p.m.sousa
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