Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:43:58 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | [patch] Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness |
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Hi!
> > root@bug:~# nice -n -20 splay -t 500 -s `find /tmp/mp3.2/` > > > > .. it behaves pretty well, but when I ran make -j on linux kernel, > > machine got LAV ov 34, and took 20M of swap (on 32Meg machine), splay > > just stopped playing. > > am i correct that you carelessly volunteer as a guinea pig? :) I do not > have a sound card installed now, but could you try the attached patch, > does it change anything? Thanks,
Do you believe that your patch helps when I make machine go 20meg onto swap? I _really_ don't think so, so I'm not testing it. [There was other person on linux-kernel which complained, I'm making this go back onto l-k and hoping that person tries it].
Pavel
[this is not my patch. Ingo wrote it.] --- linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c.orig Fri Mar 12 10:31:53 1999 +++ linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Fri Mar 12 10:32:05 1999 @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ /* if no request available: if rw_ahead, forget it; otherwise try again blocking.. */ if (!req) { - if (rw_ahead) + if (0 && rw_ahead) goto end_io; req = __get_request_wait(max_req, bh->b_rdev); }
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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