Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751172AbVIWTL7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:11:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751170AbVIWTL7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:11:59 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:62373 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751172AbVIWTL6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:11:58 -0400 Message-Id: <200509231911.j8NJBmaD007722@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:31:58 +0200." <20050923153158.GA4548@x30.random> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200509221959.j8MJxJsY010193@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200509231036.16921.kernel@kolivas.org> <200509230720.j8N7KYGX023826@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20050923153158.GA4548@x30.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1127502707_4428P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:11:48 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1256 Lines: 36 --==_Exmh_1127502707_4428P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:31:58 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli said: > 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/v2.6/2.6.1 4-rc1/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-3 Will do, although it may be Sunday night or Monday morning before I can report back - just got handed a few higher-priority tasks... --==_Exmh_1127502707_4428P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFDNFNzcC3lWbTT17ARArspAJwJBWXgyiwe3/qz0L2DWmkglrtuYQCffAhL n85ZpgD5k4FBzpdObI/+Lgc= =zm2/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1127502707_4428P-- - 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/