Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 12:03:51 EST


On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

>As an approximation, you could take the task that queues the
>request. Only kswapd, kflushd and kupdate would be the "false

That would probably be ok, but if we do that I prefer do it without
guesses.

The approssimation would be wrong for example if you have two tasks
reading the same file, one task generate the readahead but it doesn't read
it, the other task only blocks waiting the readahead to complete.

Andrea

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