Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:51:19 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 9/21] batched addition of pages to the LRU |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > And it only takes one dirty block! Any LRU page which is dirty > > against a blocked queue is like a hand grenade floating > > down a stream [1]. If some innocent task tries to write that > > page it gets DoSed via the request queue. > > This is exactly why we shouldn't wait on dirty pages in > the pageout path.
It's not the wait-on-writeback which is the problem. It's the writeout. Perhaps that's what you meant. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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