Re: Bug in write request flushing !!!
Dr. Werner Fink (werner@suse.de)
Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:51:38 +0200
>
> Ohhh, Ahhh. These write requests are made by bdflush and the
> sys_bdflush syscall. There is missing the kick to the device
> driver.
>
> Here is a one line patch which solves this bug for 2.0.30. Probably
> similar patch should be applied to 2.1.43 too.
>
> This could certainly explain a lot. Are the people playing with the
> swap/buffer-cache patch sets listening? 8-)
>
Yes
Werner