Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263281AbTFDMHe (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:07:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263279AbTFDMHd (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:07:33 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:8964 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263277AbTFDMHc (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:07:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:20:15 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Nick Piggin , Marc-Christian Petersen , Marcelo Tosatti , Georg Nikodym , lkml , Matthias Mueller Subject: Re: -rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6 Message-ID: <20030604122015.GR4853@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> <20030604120932.GS3412@x30.school.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030604120932.GS3412@x30.school.suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 22 On Wed, Jun 04 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > 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). Yes you are right, could be. But the whole thing still smells fishy. Read starvation causing mouse stalls, hmm. -- Jens Axboe - 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/