Re: [patch] sys_sync livelock fix
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Thu, 14 Feb 2002 03:07:50 +0100
On February 14, 2002 02:59 am, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:49:03AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Dangerous advocacy of the broken SuS semantics for sync, has to be stamped
> > out before it spreads ;-)
>
> Daniel,
>
> You seem to be taking both sides of this argument.
>
> Do you agree that sync should be changed to a checkpoint so that doesn't
> block for dirty data created *after* sync was called?
Yes, sorry if I was ambiguous in stating that in any way.
--
Daniel
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