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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:09:41 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Torrey Hoffman <torrey.hoffman@myrio.com>,
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Subject: Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> > 
> > I've running 2.4.16 with this VM patch combined with your
> > 2.4.15-pre7-low-latency patch from www.zip.com.au.  (it applied with a
> > little fuzz, no rejects). Is this a combination that you would feel
> > comfortable with?
> 
> Should be OK.  There is a possibility of livelock when you have
> a lot of dirty buffers against multiple devices.

Could you please describe this one ?

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