On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:59:40PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > My feeling is that we should just treat every (REQ_SYNC | REQ_READ) > request the same and let them interrupt long-running writes, > independent of whether it's REQ_META or demand paging. It's funny that the CFQ scheduler used to boost metadata reads that have REQ_META set - in fact it still does for those filesystems using the now split out REQ_PRIO. -- 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