Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:35:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:35:00 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:49216 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:34:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:32:17 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Chris Mason Cc: Andrew Morton , Johan Ekenberg , Alan Cox , jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Lockups with 2.4.14 and 2.4.16 Message-ID: <20011214193217.H2431@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <000a01c1829f$75daf7a0$050010ac@FUTURE> <000a01c1829f$75daf7a0$050010ac@FUTURE> <3825380000.1008348567@tiny> <3C1A3652.52B989E4@zip.com.au> <3845670000.1008352380@tiny> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <3845670000.1008352380@tiny>; from mason@suse.com on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:53:00PM -0500 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > I'll try this, and also add kinoded so we can avoid using keventd. I'm wary using keventd for that doesn't look too bad to me. Just like we do with the dirty inode flushing. keventd doesn't do anything 99.9% of the time, so it sounds a bit wasteful to add yet another daemon that will remain idle 99% of the time too... :) Andrea - 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/