On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, David Lombard wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> [deletia]
> >
> > The attached patch changes try_to_free_buffers() to wait at each 64
> > pages with dirty buffers being flushed before trying to start more IO.
> > This way, the memtest suite programs described above can run at the same
> > time without problems. Also it avoids system stalls because of the
> > big amount of IO which may be started.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Name: kernel-2.2.17-sync_wait.patch
> > kernel-2.2.17-sync_wait.patch Type: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN)
> > Encoding: BASE64
>
> The patch has a terminating <CR> on each line.
>
> The include/linux/fs.h chunk fails; it can be made to work if applied
> after Mingo's raid-2.2.16-A0 patch, but line offsets are then reported.
Oops, sorry.
Now i'm attaching the patch against _stock_ 2.2.17pre5.
Thanks!
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