Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: wait queue process state | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 29 May 2002 13:25:13 +0200 |
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>>>>> " " == Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> writes:
> Linux does not permit interrupting regular file reads on local > disks; only NFS supports it. Maybe 2.5 is the time to change > this.
Note that even the NFS support is less than perfect. Once a process enters lock_page(), there is no way for the user to interrupt until whatever I/O that is holding the page lock is finished.
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