Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:48:25 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
       Georg Nikodym <georgn@somanetworks.com>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: -rc7   Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:46:33PM +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:42, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
> > > > the issue with batching in 2.4, is that it is blocking at 0 and waking
> > > > at batch_requests. But it's not blocking new get_request to eat
> > > > requests in the way back from 0 to batch_requests. I mean, there are
> > > > two directions, when we move from batch_requests to 0 get_requests
> > > > should return requests. in the way back from 0 to batch_requests the
> > > > get_request should block (and it doesn't in 2.4, that is the problem)
> > > do you see a chance to fix this up in 2.4?
> > Nick posted a patch to do so the other day and asked people to test.
> Silly mcp. His mail was CC'ed to me :( ... F*ck huge inbox.

I was probably not CC'ed, I'll search for the email (and I was
travelling the last few days so I didn't read every single l-k email yet
sorry ;)

Andrea
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