Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 1997 16:11:24 +0200 | From | "Dr. Werner Fink" <> | Subject | Re: [partial fix?] Re: Badblocks and no free pages... |
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> Does the following patch help a bit in those scenarios? > (it looks as if those two lines were supposed to be there by design -- > they perfectly match the existing comment above them :-) > > Gadi > > --- linux/fs/buffer.c~ Mon May 5 14:55:14 1997 > +++ linux/fs/buffer.c Mon May 5 14:55:14 1997 > @@ -676,6 +676,8 @@ > * now so as to ensure that there are still clean buffers available > * for user processes to use (and dirty). > */ > + while(nr_buffers_type[BUF_DIRTY] > nr_buffers * bdf_prm.b_un.nfract/100) > + wakeup_bdflush(1); > > /* We are going to try to locate this much memory. */ > needed = bdf_prm.b_un.nrefill * size; >
What's about the folowing lines upto line 754 (goto repeat;)? It look's like the comment points to this code. In line 751/752 there is the needed wakeup_bdflush(1) ... isn't it?
Werner
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