Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264614AbTE1HXD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 03:23:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264615AbTE1HXD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 03:23:03 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:39079 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264614AbTE1HXC (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 03:23:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:35:44 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Marc-Christian Petersen Cc: Con Kolivas , manish , Andrea Arcangeli , Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... Message-ID: <20030528073544.GR845@suse.de> References: <3ED2DE86.2070406@storadinc.com> <200305281713.24357.kernel@kolivas.org> <20030528071355.GO845@suse.de> <200305280930.48810.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305280930.48810.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 26 On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:13, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Hi Jens, > > > If you leave nr_requests as it is, I don't see why it should not boot > > with batch_requests == 0. > > I can't see in all of these mails whether backing out akpm's starvation > > patch makes the problem go away. Does it? > If you mean > "http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c@1.29?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-2y|cset@1.160|hist/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c" > > that one, the answer is YES. That's the one, yes. Andrew, looks like your patch brought out some really bad behaviour. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/