Re: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but...

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 12:07:44 EST


On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>[..] do a 'b_count++; schedule(); b_count--; goto repeat;'
>and everything should be fine. [..]

unless browsing the whole list takes more than the task timeslice (around
10msec with a reniced +20 task). With 2giga in buffer cache 10msec of
latnecy are realistic. If that will happen what you suggested above will
cause the task to hang forever in R state.

Also after the b_count-- you can process the bh. You should "goto repeat"
only after processing the bh. Just like what I am doing in 2.3.47 in
invalidate_buffers/set_blocksize.

Andrea

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