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Re: test8-vmpatch performs great here!

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:29:43PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> > >From fs/buffer.c:
> 
> > and in kflushd()
> >    2622                 wake_up(&bdflush_done);
> > 
> > (which wakes up the first task on the wait queue)
> 
> No.  That might be true if we were TASK_EXCLUSIVE, but we are
> not --- *all_ processes on the wait queue will be woken,

> wake_up_all() is only different from wake_up() when you
> encounter TASK_EXCLUSIVE processes.

Indeed, this fooled me. For readability I have changed
the wake_up() to a wake_up_all() anyway ;)

regards,

Rik
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