> FWIW from a "real time" database POV this seems to make sense to me... > in fact, we probably rely on filesystem metadata way too much > (historically it's just "worked".... although we do seem to get issues > on ext3).
For that case you really would need priority inheritance: any metadata IO on behalf or blocking a process needs to use the process' block IO priority. David's change just fixes a limited set of cases, but breaks others. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/