Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753253AbWKFPws (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:52:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753267AbWKFPws (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:52:48 -0500 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([69.44.168.233]:31473 "EHLO iradimed.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753253AbWKFPws (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:52:48 -0500 Message-ID: <454F5A59.8010309@cfl.rr.com> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:52:57 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Brent Baccala , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: async I/O seems to be blocking on 2.6.15 References: <20061103122055.GE13555@kernel.dk> <20061103160212.GK13555@kernel.dk> <20061105121522.G <20061106104350.GR13555@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: <20061106104350.GR13555@kernel.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Nov 2006 15:52:56.0747 (UTC) FILETIME=[A08D37B0:01C701BB] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.6.1039-14796.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--6.695900-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 451 Lines: 12 Jens Axboe wrote: > Yeah, I'm afraid so. We really should be returning EAGAIN or something > like that for the congested condition, though. How would user mode know when it was safe to retry the request? - 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/