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On Fri, Sep 27 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> This is a situation where, for a dedicated machine, delaying reads > >> almost forever is actually a valuable thing. At least, valuable until > >> it stops the writes from being able to proceed. > > > > Well 0 should achieve that quite fine > > Would you consider allowing something akin to 'writes_starved = -4' to > allow writes to bypass reads only 4 times -- a preference for writes, > but not forever? Sure yes, that would be an acceptable solution. -- Jens Axboe - 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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