Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:12:52 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: ll_rw_block/submit_bh and request limits |
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:57:00PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > unsane to wait kupdate to submit 10G of ram to a single harddisk before > unplugging on a 30G machine.
actually kupdate will unplug itself the queue but in theory it can grow the queue still up to such level after the I/O started. I think we'd better add an high limit on the in flight I/O watermark.
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