Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 03:22:47 +0000 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: IDE freeze for seconds |
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Johnny Tevessen wrote: .. > Would it be possible to change this? Even on UP there's no reason > why the application has to wait for the drive if it's just > writing a file. I assume that on SMP only one of the cpus/processes > would have to wait?
If it's just a write, the application won't have to wait (but many writes are actually read-modify-write, to update a date/time stamp or whatever). .. > Yes, they do. But on IDE-only systems this is more than annoying. > Would it be hard to implement a thread/task/process that writes > back data to disk? I guess this would be the logical consequence.
It's called kflushd, and it already exists. -- mlord@pobox.com
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