Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensive workload

From: Molnar Ingo (mingo@debella.ikk.sztaki.hu)
Date: Fri Sep 22 2000 - 04:14:02 EST

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

> 894 if (current->need_resched && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) {
> 895 __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> 896 schedule();
> 897 }

> The idea was to not allow processes which have IO locks
> to schedule away, but as you can see, the check is
> reversed ...

thanks ... sounds good. Will have this tested in about 15 mins.

        Ingo

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