On Tue, Feb 06 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > =) This is what I'm seeing: lots of processes waiting with wchan == > > __get_request_wait. With async io and a database flushing lots of io > > asynchronously spread out across the disk, the NR_REQUESTS limit is hit > > very quickly. > > > Has that anything to do with kiobuf or buffer head? Nothing > Several kernel functions need a "dontblock" parameter (or a callback, or > a waitqueue address, or a tq_struct pointer). We don't even need that, non-blocking is implicitly applied with READA. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound even... Ben LaHaise
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- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound even... Ben LaHaise
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound even... Ingo Molnar
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- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound even... Manfred Spraul
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- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound even... Manfred Spraul
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- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound even... Manfred Spraul
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- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound even... Andre Hedrick
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- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound even... Linus Torvalds
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