Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 23:19:40 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>,
       manish <manish@storadinc.com>,
       Christian Klose <christian.klose@freenet.de>,
       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...
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On Tue, May 27 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2003 23:00, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
> > Are you serious? Please tell me you haven't spend two weeks on the
> > project not realising this?
> Well, 2 weeks means in hours not more than 5 or 6 just delayed over many days.
> 
> And it was further just to go deeper into the code, not a real attempt to 
> backport it. NM.

A bigger analysis of the problem before starting mindless (and useless)
porting would have brought you a lot farther :)

If you're just looking to port some io schedulers, the explanation I
left you in the previous mail should be plenty to get you started.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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