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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Joe Peterson" <joe@skyrush.com>,
	"Elias Oltmanns" <eo@nebensachen.de>,
	"Török Edwin" <edwintorok@gmail.com>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ctrl+C doesn't interrupt process waiting for I/O
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:21:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871w29s5u2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080704212335.4ffc8230@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (Alan Cox's message of "Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:23:35 +0100")

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

>> disk activity process over each time it completed), it always broke out
>> after one ^C - one time took an extra second or two.  Note that I did
>> not run latencytop (did not have it compiled in my kernel) - if that is
>> required for the test, let me know, but I assume it is just for
>> gathering info when the issue occurs.
>
> I really don't think this is tty related looking at the code involved and
> also the lack of actual measurements presented. More likely scheduler and
> VM related changes.

Why should the scheduler or VM behave differently for Ctrl-Z+kill 
versus Ctrl-C?

Doesn't make sense to me. And yes I see this here regularly and it started
at some point.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-04 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-28 10:38 Ctrl+C doesn't interrupt process waiting for I/O Török Edwin
2008-06-29  2:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-29  2:45   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-29  3:42   ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-29  5:13     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-29  5:39       ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-29  6:25         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-29  7:45           ` Török Edwin
2008-06-29 23:57           ` Bill Davidsen
2008-06-29 12:37         ` Alan Cox
2008-06-30 17:35       ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-06-29  7:09   ` Török Edwin
2008-06-29  7:23   ` David Newall
2008-06-29 12:10   ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-29 16:02     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 10:30       ` Helge Hafting
2008-07-01  7:47 ` Elias Oltmanns
2008-07-01  8:02   ` Elias Oltmanns
2008-07-01  8:28     ` Török Edwin
2008-07-01  9:59       ` Elias Oltmanns
2008-07-01 12:07       ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-01  8:50   ` David Newall
2008-07-01  9:01     ` Török Edwin
2008-07-01  9:12       ` David Newall
2008-07-01 14:12   ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-01 14:48     ` Elias Oltmanns
2008-07-01 16:27       ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-02 21:26   ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-04 20:10   ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-04 20:23     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 21:17       ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-11 14:47         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-12  0:44           ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-12 10:37             ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 21:21       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-04 21:14         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 21:36           ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-04 21:44             ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 22:09               ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 10:34                 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-05 11:00                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 11:34                     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-05 12:49                     ` Elias Oltmanns
2008-07-05 14:01                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-05 19:58                       ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-06  8:28                         ` Elias Oltmanns
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2008-07-03  0:59 Matthew Wilcox

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