Messages in this thread |  | | From | ehrhardt@mathemat ... | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:05:59 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7 |
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Hi,
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:42:47AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > --- linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c.orig Sat Sep 30 18:09:18 2000 > +++ linux-2.4.0-test9-pre7/fs/buffer.c Mon Oct 2 00:19:41 2000 > @@ -706,7 +706,9 @@ > static void refill_freelist(int size) > { > if (!grow_buffers(size)) { > - try_to_free_pages(GFP_BUFFER); > + wakeup_bdflush(1); > + current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD; > + schedule(); > } > }
This part looks strange! wakeup_bdflush will sleep if the parameter is not zero, i.e. we'll schedule twice. I doubt that this the intended behaviour?
regards Christian
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