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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wait queue process state
Date: 29 May 2002 13:25:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shsd6vfqjqe.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CF2A0FB.8090507@um.edu.mt> <1022572663.12203.127.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> <20020528160143.G885@pegasys.ws> <20020528190518.E21009@redhat.com>

>>>>> " " == Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> writes:

     > Linux does not permit interrupting regular file reads on local
     > disks; only NFS supports it.  Maybe 2.5 is the time to change
     > this.

Note that even the NFS support is less than perfect. Once a process
enters lock_page(), there is no way for the user to interrupt until
whatever I/O that is holding the page lock is finished.

Cheers,
  Trond

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-29 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-27 21:11 wait queue process state Joseph Cordina
2002-05-27 15:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-28  7:57 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-05-28 23:01   ` jw schultz
2002-05-28 23:05     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-05-29  0:21       ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 10:58         ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-29 12:43           ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 11:55             ` Roman Zippel
2002-05-29 13:29               ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 11:56             ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-31 19:05               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-05-29 11:25       ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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