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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 01:10:27 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] get_request starvation fix
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> It is noteworthy that the wakeup strategy has changed from wake-all to
> wake-one, which should save a few cycles.

It is also noteworthy that read latency completely sucks.  Not sure if
I've made it worse.

Anyway, with exclusive wakeup we need separate waitqueues for read and
write requests.  Updated patch at

	http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.18-pre9/make_request.patch

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