Re: Block device throttling [Re: Distributed storage.]

[Daniel Phillips]

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 04:30, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > And it will not solve the deadlock problem in general.  (Maybe it
> > works for your virtual device, but I wonder...)  If the virtual
> > device allocates memory during generic_make_request then the memory
> > needs to be throttled.
>
> Daniel, if device process bio by itself, it has a limit and thus it
> will wait in generic_make_request()

What will make it wait?

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