From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:13:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 In-Reply-To: <20000925161358.J22882@athlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I was _only_ talking about the blkdev hangs [...] i guess this was just miscommunication. It never 'hung', it just performed reads with 20k/sec or so. (without any writes being done in the background.) A 'hang' for me is a deadlock or lockup, not a slowdown. > that caused you to unplug the queue at each reschedule in tux and that > Eric reported me for the SG driver (and I very much hope that with > EXCLUSIVE gone away and the wait_on_* fixed those hangs will go away > because I don't see anything else wrong at this moment). okay, i'll test this. Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/