Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:57:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:57:34 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:26884 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:57:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3C8F05EF.F958B07C@zip.com.au> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:55:27 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Arcangeli CC: wli@holomorphy.com, wli@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, "Richard B. Johnson" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@surriel.com, hch@infradead.org, phillips@bonn-fries.net Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1 In-Reply-To: <20020312041958.C687@holomorphy.com> <20020312070645.X10413@dualathlon.random> <20020312112900.A14628@holomorphy.com> <20020312135605.P25226@dualathlon.random> <20020312141439.C14628@holomorphy.com> <20020312160430.W25226@dualathlon.random>, <20020312160430.W25226@dualathlon.random>; <20020312233117.E14628@holomorphy.com> <3C8E98B2.159FA546@zip.com.au>, <3C8E98B2.159FA546@zip.com.au> <20020313083055.D21589@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > ... > What do you think about this patch against 2.4.19pre3aa1? Well it won't apply on 10_vm-30, but that's OK... So BH_Launder is set when we start I/O and is cleared on I/O completion. That sounds fine - clearly it is always safe to throttle on these buffers. Thanks - I'll stress-test it tomorrow. - - 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/