Re: -rc7 Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6
Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:20:15 +0200
On Wed, Jun 04 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:00:53PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > since you have a single writer and maybe a reader or two. The single
> > writer cannot starve anyone else.
>
> unless you're changing an atime and you've to mark_buffer_dirty or
> similar (balance_dirty will write stuff the same way from cp and the
> reader then).
Yes you are right, could be.
But the whole thing still smells fishy. Read starvation causing mouse
stalls, hmm.
--
Jens Axboe
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