Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:48:02 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Ramdisk / sync deadlock |
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On Tue, Aug 22 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > This can be fixed quite easily by changing rd to not use a request > queue at all, but passing each buffer directly from ll_rw_block > through generic_make_request into rd.c, instead of queuing them up in > a request queue. After all, rd does *not* need an elevator algorithm.
Good thinking, this is probably the better fix. It saves a pool of (then) unused requests as well.
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