Re: Asynch I/O broken in 2.2.15

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 13:30:16 EST


Steve Dodd wrote:
>

> I did. The whole point of schedule is it puts the current process to sleep -
> and it /shouldn't/ get woken up again until the I/O completes. The fact that
> there's a do .. while loop around that bit suggests to me that perhaps I don't
> know the whole story, or perhaps someone was paranoid..
>
>

It does poll there. I am trying page locking now since this was
something Stephen Tweedie suggested I try to get around the Oops, though
I a confused as to why the swapper would be touching pinned memory in my
LRU (?)

Jeff

> No good deed goes unpunished.

It is sad that this is often true....

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