Re: Linux 2.2.17pre5

From: David Lombard (david.lombard@mscsoftware.com)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 18:16:32 EST


Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
[deletia]
>
> The attached patch changes try_to_free_buffers() to wait at each 64
> pages with dirty buffers being flushed before trying to start more IO.
> This way, the memtest suite programs described above can run at the same
> time without problems. Also it avoids system stalls because of the
> big amount of IO which may be started.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: kernel-2.2.17-sync_wait.patch
> kernel-2.2.17-sync_wait.patch Type: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN)
> Encoding: BASE64

The patch has a terminating <CR> on each line.

The include/linux/fs.h chunk fails; it can be made to work if applied
after Mingo's raid-2.2.16-A0 patch, but line offsets are then reported.

-- 
David N. Lombard
MSC.Software

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