Re: scheduling problem?

[Mike Galbraith]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > No difference (except more context switching as expected)
> 
> What about the current prerelese patch in testing? It doesn't switch to
> bdflush at all, but instead does the buffer cleaning by hand.

99% gone.  The remaining 1% is refill_freelist().  If I use
flush_dirty_buffers() there instead of waiting, I have no more
semaphore timeouts (so far.. not thoroughly pounded upon). Without
that change, I still take hits.  (in my tinker tree, I usually
make a 'small flush' mode for flush_dirty_buffers() to do that)

Feel is _vastly_ improved.

	-Mike