From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:28:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:28:18 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:28940 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:28:12 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniel Phillips To: Dieter =?iso-8859-1?q?N=FCtzel=20?= , Robert Love , Chris Mason Subject: Re: Feedback on preemptible kernel patch Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:35:21 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: Linux Kernel List , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <200109140302.f8E32LG13400@zero.tech9.net> <1000530869.32365.21.camel@phantasy> <20010918040550Z273827-761+10122@vger.kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20010918040550Z273827-761+10122@vger.kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010918082829Z16130-2757+562@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On September 18, 2001 06:06 am, Dieter Nützel wrote: > Am Samstag, 15. September 2001 07:14 schrieb Robert Love: > > On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 00:25, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > It seems to be that kswap put some additional "load" on the disk from > > > time to time. Or is it the ReiserFS thing, again? > > > > I don't think its related to ReiserFS. > > I think you are right. They were bounce buffers, meaning they can come from any page cache io, and I saw at least one report with the same symptoms without the preempt patch. I don't think it's your problem. -- Daniel