From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:32:29 +0200
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On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:13, Jens Axboe wrote:

Hi Jens,

> If you leave nr_requests as it is, I don't see why it should not boot
> with batch_requests == 0.
> I can't see in all of these mails whether backing out akpm's starvation
> patch makes the problem go away. Does it?
If you mean 
"http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c@1.29?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-2y|cset@1.160|hist/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c"

that one, the answer is YES.

ciao, Marc


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