On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:30:39 -0800
Tom Spindler <dogcow@babymeat.com> wrote:

> > As of Jan, something seems to have broken BUFQ_READPRIO -- unclear
> > who did it or why, but it is very clear to me that it got broken.
> > The old symptoms of lots of disk i/o locking out userland processes
> > trying to read something have returned.
> 
> FWIW, I do _not_ have BUFQ_READPRIO in either of my kernels that this
> manifests itself.
> 
And the problem just started for you recently?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb