Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269963AbTGKNhw (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:37:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269964AbTGKNhw (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:37:52 -0400 Received: from 69-55-72-150.ppp.netsville.net ([69.55.72.150]:38855 "EHLO tiny.suse.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269963AbTGKNhu (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:37:50 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem From: Chris Mason To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, ia6432@inbox.ru, green@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de In-Reply-To: <20030711153840.427909e2.skraw@ithnet.com> References: <20030710191254.093354d2.skraw@ithnet.com> <1057929320.13317.26.camel@tiny.suse.com> <20030711153840.427909e2.skraw@ithnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1057931467.13318.41.camel@tiny.suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 11 Jul 2003 09:51:07 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 27 On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 09:38, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On 11 Jul 2003 09:15:21 -0400 > Chris Mason wrote: > > > > Andrea, Chris, any idea of why this is happening? > > > > My first guess is that blk_oversized_queue is false but there aren't any > > requests left. That will pretty much spin in __get_request_wait with > > irqs off, which sounds similar to what he's hitting. > > > > I think we need this hunk even if it doesn't fix his problem. > > Strike! > Your patch solves my problem. I applied it on 2.4.22-pre4 and it now works just > like -pre2 did. > Great Chris, compared to the pretty minimal input I could give ... Thanks for the quick test, you've been hugely helpful. -chris - 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/