Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261261AbVCGVyV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:54:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261273AbVCGV1M (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:27:12 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:21894 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261770AbVCGVL7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:11:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:11:13 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sct@redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads Message-Id: <20050307131113.0fd7477e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1110229687.15117.612.camel@sisko.sctweedie.blueyonder.co.uk> References: <1109966084.5309.3.camel@sisko.sctweedie.blueyonder.co.uk> <20050304160451.4c33919c.akpm@osdl.org> <1110213656.15117.193.camel@sisko.sctweedie.blueyonder.co.uk> <20050307123118.3a946bc8.akpm@osdl.org> <1110229687.15117.612.camel@sisko.sctweedie.blueyonder.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 12 "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > I'm having trouble testing it, though --- I seem to be getting livelocks > in O_DIRECT running 400 fsstress processes in parallel; ring any bells? Nope. I dont think anyone has been that cruel to ext3 for a while. I assume this workload used to succeed? - 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/