Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261487AbVDLHRg (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:17:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262040AbVDLHOi (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:14:38 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:25509 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261487AbVDLHLF (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:11:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:07:45 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Nick Piggin Cc: Claudio Martins , Andrew Morton , lkml , Neil Brown Subject: Re: Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron Message-ID: <20050412070744.GB7161@suse.de> References: <200504050316.20644.ctpm@rnl.ist.utl.pt> <200504111505.44284.ctpm@rnl.ist.utl.pt> <425B013A.5020108@yahoo.com.au> <200504120122.48168.ctpm@rnl.ist.utl.pt> <1113268760.5090.13.camel@npiggin-nld.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1113268760.5090.13.camel@npiggin-nld.site> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 17 On Tue, Apr 12 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Actually the patches I have sent you do fix real bugs, but they also > make the block layer less likely to recurse into page reclaim, so it > may be eg. hiding the problem that Neil's patch fixes. Can you push those to Andrew? I'm quite happy with the way they turned out. It would be nice if Ken would bench 2.6.12-rc2 with and without those patches. -- 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/