Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264828AbTE1SmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 14:42:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264827AbTE1SmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 14:42:05 -0400 Received: from amsfep12-int.chello.nl ([213.46.243.18]:10333 "EHLO amsfep12-int.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264828AbTE1SmE (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 14:42:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3ED50612.40507@users.sf.net> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:55:14 +0200 From: Thomas Tonino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030428 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... References: <20030527035006$5339@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030527175008$3573@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030527180016$418c@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030527182011$4acb@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030528094008$1500@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030528095014$7b21@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <20030528095014$7b21@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 23 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/