Re: [patch] get_request starvation fix

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 04:10:27 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> It is noteworthy that the wakeup strategy has changed from wake-all to
> wake-one, which should save a few cycles.

It is also noteworthy that read latency completely sucks. Not sure if
I've made it worse.

Anyway, with exclusive wakeup we need separate waitqueues for read and
write requests. Updated patch at

        http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/2.4/2.4.18-pre9/make_request.patch

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