On Wednesday June 12, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: > > ... but on trying it, it doesn't actually work, at least not > completely: > Jun 12 09:18:44 elfman kernel: buffer on 0 has age 530 > Jun 12 09:18:44 elfman kernel: buffer on 0 has age 546 > Jun 12 09:18:44 elfman kernel: buffer on 0 has age 561 > > buffers are still on the dirty list out of order. Actually.. I might be misinterpreting this output. This doesn't necessarily mean they are in the wrong order. It could happen if lots of buffers are on the dirty list with the same flush time. The get flushed out in groups of 32 and these messages could be one for each group, that are starting at approximately 0.15 second intervals. So mayby this patch is OK after all. NeilBrown
