Re: More 2.2.17pre9 VM issues

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:54:11 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>Do you have any possible solution in mind for that problem?

Yes, I started implementing it but I had to reschedule on some other
urgent issue. I will continue ASAP. If you want to get early untested
patches you're welcome ;)

>Another thing which I would like to receive comments from you and other
>people is my patch to fix the IO completion wait problem at:
>
>http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~marcelo/patches/v2.2/2.2.17pre9/wait-dirty.patch

I still don't love this 64 (aka random ;) thing:

+ wait = ((gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)
+ && (!(nr_dirty % 64)));

Andrea

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