linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock

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Date:	Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:40:34 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...r.kernel.org,
	agk@...hat.com, mbroz@...hat.com, chris@...chsys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:32:23 +1000 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:

> > yup, that's pretty much unfixable, really, unless new locks are added
> > which block threads which are writing to unrelated sections of the
> > file, and that could hurt some workloads quite a lot, I expect.
> 
> Why is it unfixable? Just ignore nr_to_write, and write out everything
> properly, I would have thought.

That can cause fsync to wait arbitrarily long if some other process is
writing the file.  This happens.
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