Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264701AbTFLCja (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:39:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264704AbTFLCja (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:39:30 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-241-68.webone.com.au ([210.9.241.68]:40196 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264701AbTFLCjX (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:39:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3EE7EAF1.3080400@cyberone.com.au> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:52:33 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Andrea Arcangeli , Chris Mason , Marc-Christian Petersen , Jens Axboe , Marcelo Tosatti , Georg Nikodym , lkml , Matthias Mueller Subject: Re: [PATCH] io stalls References: <1055296630.23697.195.camel@tiny.suse.com> <20030611021030.GQ26270@dualathlon.random> <1055353360.23697.235.camel@tiny.suse.com> <20030611181217.GX26270@dualathlon.random> <1055356032.24111.240.camel@tiny.suse.com> <20030611183503.GY26270@dualathlon.random> <3EE7D1AA.30701@cyberone.com.au> <20030612012951.GG1500@dualathlon.random> <1055384547.24111.322.camel@tiny.suse.com> <3EE7E876.80808@cyberone.com.au> <20030612024608.GE1415@dualathlon.random> <3EE7EA4A.5030105@cyberone.com.au> <3EE7EAB2.5010705@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3EE7EAB2.5010705@cyberone.com.au> 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: 513 Lines: 18 Nick Piggin wrote: > > I guess you could fix this by having a "last woken" flag, and > allow that process to allocate requests without blocking from > the batch limit until the queue full limit. That is how > batch_requests is supposed to work. s/flag/pid maybe? - 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/