Re: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but...

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:24:16 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, William Montgomery wrote:

>(mark_buffer_clean and mark_buffer_dirty) are modified in the lowlatency
>patch to be followed by a conditional_schedule. Why would this function

BUG -> mark_buffer_clean is never been supposed to be blocking! Remove the
conditional_schedule from there.

>not also need it? I only ask because the latency has increased from

You'd better not conditional schedule there since it's called with a
spinlock held ;).

>0.6ms to 1.4ms and I thought this might be the cause.

Yes I got your point but it sure isn't the problem.

Andrea

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