Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751085AbVIWPcZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:32:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751089AbVIWPcZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:32:25 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:54607 "EHLO x30.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751085AbVIWPcY (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:32:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:31:58 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up Message-ID: <20050923153158.GA4548@x30.random> References: <200509221959.j8MJxJsY010193@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200509231036.16921.kernel@kolivas.org> <200509230720.j8N7KYGX023826@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200509230720.j8N7KYGX023826@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 13 Hello, Can you try this updated patch? I believe the blk_congestion_wait is just wrong there, since there may be just one page being flushed. That sounds like a longstanding bug except it normally wouldn't trigger because the dirty levels never goes down near zero during heavy writes. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.14-rc1/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-3 - 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/