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Huge pages, slow drives, and long delays

Posted Dec 24, 2011 0:20 UTC (Sat) by tristangrimaux (guest, #26831)
Parent article: Huge pages, slow drives, and long delays

Mel Gorman's patch is slick, but is not elegant.

Elegant should be to make sure synchronous operations are quick and do not wait for ANY device to signal, only should reserve and set flags and then go out without further ado.

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