Re: More 2.2.17pre9 VM issues

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> 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 ;)
Of course I want :)

> >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)));

Indeed. But there is anything better than that?