Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:20:15 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: -rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6 |
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On Wed, Jun 04 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:00:53PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > since you have a single writer and maybe a reader or two. The single > > writer cannot starve anyone else. > > unless you're changing an atime and you've to mark_buffer_dirty or > similar (balance_dirty will write stuff the same way from cp and the > reader then).
Yes you are right, could be.
But the whole thing still smells fishy. Read starvation causing mouse stalls, hmm.
-- Jens Axboe
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