Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2003 20:55:14 +0200 | From | Thomas Tonino <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... |
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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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