Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:46:11 -0500 | From | Peter Rival <> | Subject | Re: elevator-starvation-4 (2.2.14 && 2.3.42) |
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Bruce Thompson wrote: > > >process. Once the counter exceeds some particular highwater mark the > >process is blocked from entering more requests until the counter > >drops to some lowwater mark. Hmm. ANother thought. Make the counter > > You never generate I/O from tasks. It's when the buffer is too old that > kupdate flushes writes to disk. At that time the process is just exited > and the user just run another program that gets stalled due the write > flood. >
I believe this is technically incorrect - what about fsync() calls and files opened O_SYNC? I'm sick, so feel free to shoot me if I'm off-base. ;)
- Pete
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