Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:41:33 -0700 | Subject | Re: Sync writeback still broken |
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote: > On Fri 05-11-10 22:33:24, Jan Kara wrote: >> I needed one more patch to resolve the issue (attached) which I've just >> posted for review and possible inclusion. I had a similar one long time ago >> but now I'm better able to explain why it works because of tracepoints. >> Yay! ;). With those three patches I'm not able to trigger livelocks (but >> sync takes still 15 minutes because the througput to disk is about 4MB/s - >> no big surprise given the random nature of the load) > PS: And big thanks to you for providing the test case and your > persistence ;)
Ok, I'm inclined to just apply these three patches. Can we get a quick ack/tested-by for them? I'm sure there's more work to be done, but let's put this damn thing to rest if it really does fix the problem Jan(E) sees.
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