Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16 2001, srn@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > As Jack noted, the temp patch mentioned in this pv has
> > been applied to the snia tree for now as a short term
> > fix for QA SNIA testing. This bug should probably not
> > have been closed since there's another more complete
> > fix in the works according to anath and chait. --steve
>
> Which bug was this specifically?
This is the infamous elevator starvation problem
For XFS this means hammer on one part of the disk
and log requests to a completely different part of the disk
will get starved out.
BTW what is the status of this patch in regards to the
actual 2.4.x tree?
Somebody mentioned one of the 2.4.1-acX had it included?
Russell Cattelan
cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx
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