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SubjectRe: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...
Jens Axboe wrote:

> Lemme guess, hard drive on the same channel as the burner? There's
> nothing we can do about that, hardware limitation.

hmmm... most drives these days have a command to read free buffer capacity, so
there is no need to send more than the drive can swallow - and no need to tie up
the channel.

> The reason you see it
> during fixation is because that's one long single command, and we cannot
> preempt the channel and service requests while that is going on.

But this may be the exception that breaks the rule. Bah.


Thomas

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