Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263264AbTFDL5q (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:57:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263271AbTFDL5q (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:57:46 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:37903 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263264AbTFDL5p (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:57:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:09:32 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Jens Axboe Cc: Nick Piggin , Marc-Christian Petersen , Marcelo Tosatti , Georg Nikodym , lkml , Matthias Mueller Subject: Re: -rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6 Message-ID: <20030604120932.GS3412@x30.school.suse.de> References: <200306041235.07832.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030604104215.GN4853@suse.de> <200306041246.21636.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030604104825.GR3412@x30.school.suse.de> <3EDDDEBB.4080209@cyberone.com.au> <20030604120053.GQ4853@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030604120053.GQ4853@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 17 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). Maybe we can get some stack trace with kgdb to be sure where the reader is blocking. Andrea - 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/