Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261887AbTE2FLJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 01:11:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261893AbTE2FLJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 01:11:09 -0400 Received: from ip68-111-188-90.sd.sd.cox.net ([68.111.188.90]:33155 "EHLO rei.moonkingdom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261887AbTE2FLJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 01:11:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 22:24:25 -0700 From: Marc Wilson To: lkml Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6 Message-ID: <20030529052425.GA1566@moonkingdom.net> Mail-Followup-To: lkml References: <200305291122.20775.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305291122.20775.kernel@kolivas.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 25 On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:22:20AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003 10:55, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Andrew Morton : > > o Fix IO stalls and deadlocks > > For those interested these are patches 1 and 2 from akpm's proposed fixes in > the looong thread discussing this problem. Are you sure? I'm no C programmer, but it looks to me like all three patches are in 21-rc6. And I still see the stalls, although it's much reduced. :( I just had mutt freeze cold on me though for ~15 sec when it tried to open my debian-devel mbox (rather lage file) while brag was beating on the drive. -- Marc Wilson | You have had a long-term stimulation relative to msw@cox.net | business. - 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/