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- NET.v7bugs
- utzoo!henry
- Thu May 28 19:09:51 1981
- disksort read/write order
- In /usr/sys/dev/dsort.c, the general seek-sort routine used by hp.c
- et al, the code as distributed queues reads before writes. This is
- WRONG, the intent was to put writes before reads (I asked Dennis Ritchie
- at the San Francisco Usenix meeting). The result is that on a very busy
- system, it can take a looooong time for data to get out to disk, which
- is risky and can hurt performance.
-
- The fix is simple; in the two if's that check B_READ flags, "ap" should
- be changed to "bp" and vice-versa.
-
- This bug has been known for some time, but hasn't been seen on the net
- yet. It was discovered by Peter Hardie at University of Saskatchewan.
-