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SubjectRe: Counter-kludge for 2.5.x hanging when writing to block device
On Tue, Jun 03 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Does something like this work? Andrew, what's the point of doing the
> > wait if the queue isn't congested?!
>
> We need to wait until the amount of dirty memory in the machine is below
> the designated limits. This is unrelated to queue congestion. The way the
> logic is now we can have 256 megs worth of requests queues on a 32M machine
> and everything throttles and clamps as intended.
>
>
> There are several things wrong with blk_congestion_wait(), including:
>
> a) it should be called throttle_on_io()

Well...

> b) it should check that there are still requests in flight after parking
> itself on the waitqueue rather than relying on the timeout.

This is important, would be much nicer to pass in the backing dev. This
is a big problem, imho. It's broken right now.

> As for Adam's hang: dunno. I and many others have run mkfs and dd an
> unbelievable number of times. He needs to debug it more.

Agree

--
Jens Axboe

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