Pavel Machek wrote: > On Wed 2009-08-05 17:46:16, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 03:05:34 Pavel Machek wrote: >> Just to make sure you haven't missed this - it is not that they have to >> complete the whole operation before the timeout period (since you mention >> realtime/mlock I suspect this is what you think?), but _during_ the operation >> they have to show that they are active by sending something like keep alive >> messages. >> >> Or you are worried about failing to meet even that on a loaded system? There >> has to be something like this otherwise hung userspace client would kill the >> whole system. > > Of course, I'm worried about failing to meet this on loaded > system. And the fact that I _have_ to worry about that means that > interface is ugly/broken. You mean that in 5 seconds, you won't have any point when you can tell the kernel, "I'm still working"? -- Douglas Leeder -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
