Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:13:49 +0200 | From | christophe barbe <> | Subject | Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++) |
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The sleep should certainly be interruptible and I that's what I said to the GFS guy. But what the reason to increment the load average for each D process ?
Thanks, Christophe
On mer, 04 avr 2001 13:15:52 Alan Cox wrote: > > The file locking use real IO and so when you ask for a lock, if the loc= > > k is already owned, you fall in a D state. > > That seems odd. They should be using interruptible sleeps so you can interrupt > the task waiting for the lock, surely. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Christophe Barbé Software Engineer Lineo High Availability Group 42-46, rue Médéric 92110 Clichy - France phone (33).1.41.40.02.12 fax (33).1.41.40.02.01 www.lineo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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