From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.[45] fixes for design locking bug in wait_on_page/wait_on_buffer/get_request_wait
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:58:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211161958.57677.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> (raw)
Hi Andrea,
> just to make a quick test, can you try an hack like this combined with a
> setting of elvtune -r 128 -w 256 on top of 2.4.20rc1?
>
> --- x/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c.~1~ Sat Nov 2 19:45:33 2002
> +++ x/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Sat Nov 16 19:44:20 2002
> @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ static void blk_init_free_list(request_q
>
> si_meminfo(&si);
> megs = si.totalram >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
> - nr_requests = 128;
> + nr_requests = 16;
> if (megs < 32)
> nr_requests /= 2;
> blk_grow_request_list(q, nr_requests);
hehe, Andrea, it seem's we both think of the same ... :-) ... I am just
recompiling the kernel ... hang on.
ciao, Marc
next reply other threads:[~2002-11-16 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-16 18:58 Marc-Christian Petersen [this message]
2002-11-16 21:55 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-17 17:37 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-17 19:19 ` Folkert van Heusden
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2002-11-16 16:24 Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-16 16:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-16 17:23 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-16 17:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-16 17:43 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-16 18:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-12 3:57 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-12 8:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-12 18:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-12 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-13 0:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-13 1:01 ` Andrew Morton
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