Re: blk_congestion_wait racy?

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 12:57:44 EST






Hi Nick,

> Another problem is that if there are no requests anywhere in the system,
> sleepers in blk_congestion_wait will not get kicked. blk_congestion_wait
> could probably have blk_run_queues moved after prepare_to_wait, which
> might help.
I tried putting blk_run_queues after prepare_to_wait, it worked but it
didn't help. The test still needs close to a minute.

blue skies,
Martin

Linux/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
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