Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751268AbVIWU5e (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:57:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751290AbVIWU5e (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:57:34 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:20097 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751268AbVIWU5e (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:57:34 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up From: Dave Kleikamp To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050923153158.GA4548@x30.random> References: <200509221959.j8MJxJsY010193@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200509231036.16921.kernel@kolivas.org> <200509230720.j8N7KYGX023826@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20050923153158.GA4548@x30.random> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:57:27 -0500 Message-Id: <1127509047.8880.4.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 21 On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 17:31 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > 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. fsx is now stuck in a loop somewhere, using 100% cpu. > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.14-rc1/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-3 -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - 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/