Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:08:38 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 |
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On Mon, Sep 25 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > i had yesterday - those were simple VM deadlocks. I dont see any deadlocks > > Definitely. They can't explain anything about the VM deadlocks. I was > _only_ talking about the blkdev hangs that caused you to unplug the > queue at each reschedule in tux and that Eric reported me for the SG > driver (and I very much hope that with EXCLUSIVE gone away and the > wait_on_* fixed those hangs will go away because I don't see anything else > wrong at this moment).
The sg problem was different. When sg queues a request, it invokes the request_fn to handle it. But if the queue is currently plugged, the scsi_request_fn will not do anything.
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