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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"P. Benie" <pjb1008@eng.cam.ac.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block
Date: 04 Jun 2003 17:47:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1054745247.9233.119.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306040732470.13753-100000@home.transmeta.com>

On Mer, 2003-06-04 at 15:35, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In general, we shouldn't do this, unless somebody can show an application 
> where it really matters. Taking internal kernel locking into account for 
> "blockingness" easily gets quite complicated, and there is seldom any real 
> point to it.

Hanging shutdown is the obvious one. With 2.0/2.2 we had a similar
problem and fixed it.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-04 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-04  0:58 [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block P. Benie
2003-06-04  5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-04 14:35   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 14:58     ` P. Benie
2003-06-04 16:47     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-06-04 17:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 19:46         ` P. Benie
2003-06-04 19:56           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 20:48             ` P. Benie
2003-06-11  0:19               ` Robert White
2003-06-04 20:43           ` Hua Zhong
2003-06-04 23:42           ` Russell King
2003-06-04 23:47             ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-04 21:29         ` Alan Cox
2003-06-04 17:14     ` Hua Zhong
2003-06-04 17:41       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 18:44         ` Hua Zhong
2003-06-04 18:47           ` P. Benie
2003-06-04 19:23             ` P. Benie
2003-06-04 19:20           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 17:53       ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-04 15:21   ` Coding standards. (Was: Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block) Timothy Miller
2003-06-07  0:12     ` Greg KH
2003-06-07  0:59       ` Alex Goddard
2003-06-09 16:24       ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-09 16:39         ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-09 17:15           ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-09 17:33             ` Eli Carter
2003-06-09 17:49               ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-09 18:07                 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-09 18:22                   ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-09 18:55             ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-09 18:58               ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-09 21:35                 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-09 22:55                   ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-09 23:21                     ` Nigel Cunningham
2003-06-09 21:54                 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-10 18:17                 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-10 18:41                   ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-10 18:14               ` Jesse Pollard
2003-06-09 23:50             ` James Stevenson
2003-06-09 18:44           ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-09 22:00             ` Jörn Engel
     [not found] <20030604172026$296c@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030604175013$3a4d@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-06-04 19:13   ` [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block Ben Pfaff
2003-06-04 19:36 Hua Zhong
2003-06-04 20:09 ` Hua Zhong
2003-06-05  0:04 Ed Vance
2003-06-05  0:19 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-05 18:34   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-06-05 19:15     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-05 21:46       ` Joe Korty
2003-06-06  0:13     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-06 12:13 Nicholas Berry

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