Andreas Dilger wrote:
On Dec 21, 2007 16:39 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
@@ -3790,7 +3782,9 @@ repeat:
/* if we still need more blocks and some PAs were used, try again */
if (free < needed && busy) {
+ busy = 0;
ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);
+ schedule_timeout(HZ);
goto repeat;
}
Is there nothing we could actually wait on instead of just sleeping for
1 second?
actually it was done for simplicity - in my tests busy PA happened quite rare.
I have no objection to improve this with special wait queue.
thanks, Alex
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