From: Mark Hemment <markhe@veritas.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:21:16 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108041717540.26125-100000@alloc.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108032330450.1193-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, I've made a 2.4.8-pre4.
A colleague has reminded me that we this small patch against
flush_dirty_buffers() - kick the disk queues before sleeping.
Mark
--- linux-2.4.8-pre4/fs/buffer.c Sat Aug 4 11:49:52 2001
+++ linux/fs/buffer.c Sat Aug 4 11:56:25 2001
@@ -2568,8 +2568,11 @@
ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &bh);
put_bh(bh);
- if (current->need_resched)
+ if (current->need_resched) {
+ /* kick what we've already pushed down */
+ run_task_queue(&tq_disk);
schedule();
+ }
goto restart;
}
out_unlock:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-04 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-03 23:44 [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage" Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 1:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 3:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:23 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 3:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:26 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 3:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 3:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 3:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 4:14 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 4:39 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 4:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 5:13 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-04 5:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 6:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 5:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-04 7:13 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 14:22 ` Mike Black
2001-08-04 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-05 4:19 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-08-05 18:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-08-05 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-05 20:45 ` arjan
2001-08-06 20:32 ` Rob Landley
2001-08-05 15:24 ` Mike Black
2001-08-05 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-05 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-05 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-04 16:21 ` Mark Hemment [this message]
2001-08-07 15:45 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 16:51 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-07 18:40 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-07 21:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-07 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-07 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
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