From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263183AbTFDKdQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 06:33:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263185AbTFDKdQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 06:33:16 -0400 Received: from lindsey.linux-systeme.com ([80.190.48.67]:8714 "EHLO mx00.linux-systeme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263183AbTFDKdP (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 06:33:15 -0400 From: Marc-Christian Petersen Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel To: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: -rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:46:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Marcelo Tosatti , Georg Nikodym , lkml References: <200306041235.07832.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030604104215.GN4853@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20030604104215.GN4853@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306041246.21636.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:42, Jens Axboe wrote: Hi Jens, > > > the issue with batching in 2.4, is that it is blocking at 0 and waking > > > at batch_requests. But it's not blocking new get_request to eat > > > requests in the way back from 0 to batch_requests. I mean, there are > > > two directions, when we move from batch_requests to 0 get_requests > > > should return requests. in the way back from 0 to batch_requests the > > > get_request should block (and it doesn't in 2.4, that is the problem) > > do you see a chance to fix this up in 2.4? > Nick posted a patch to do so the other day and asked people to test. Silly mcp. His mail was CC'ed to me :( ... F*ck huge inbox. ciao, Marc