Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:04:42 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: RFC on io-stalls patch |
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On Wed, Jul 16 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:46:56PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Well it's a combined problem. Threshold too high on dirty memory, > > someone doing a read well get stuck flushing out as well. > > a pure read not. the write throttling should be per-process, then there > will be little risk.
A read from user space, dirtying data along the way.
-- Jens Axboe
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