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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:14:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: Molnar Ingo <mingo@debella.aszi.sztaki.hu>
Subject: Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensive
 workload
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Cc: Molnar Ingo <mingo@debella.ikk.sztaki.hu>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

>  894          if (current->need_resched && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) {
>  895                  __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>  896                  schedule();
>  897          }

> The idea was to not allow processes which have IO locks
> to schedule away, but as you can see, the check is 
> reversed ...

thanks ... sounds good. Will have this tested in about 15 mins.

	Ingo

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