Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 27 May 2003 23:19:40 +0200

On Tue, May 27 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2003 23:00, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> > Are you serious? Please tell me you haven't spend two weeks on the
> > project not realising this?
> Well, 2 weeks means in hours not more than 5 or 6 just delayed over many days.
>
> And it was further just to go deeper into the code, not a real attempt to
> backport it. NM.

A bigger analysis of the problem before starting mindless (and useless)
porting would have brought you a lot farther :)

If you're just looking to port some io schedulers, the explanation I
left you in the previous mail should be plenty to get you started.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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