From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:50:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:50:07 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:59647 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:50:06 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:59:53 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Tom Sightler Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.59-mm5 hangs on boot Message-Id: <20030125165953.44e1b655.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <1043542198.3019.4.camel@iso-2146-l1.zeusinc.com> References: <1043534331.1672.71.camel@iso-2146-l1.zeusinc.com> <20030125153217.6ff6e275.akpm@digeo.com> <1043542198.3019.4.camel@iso-2146-l1.zeusinc.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jan 2003 00:59:15.0701 (UTC) FILETIME=[25DBEA50:01C2C4D6] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tom Sightler wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 18:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > > First up, please see if changing this: > > > > static int antic_expire = HZ / 25; > > > > to > > > > static int antic_expire = 0; > > > > in drivers/block/deadline-iosched.c fixes it up. > > This worked, but this is obviously not a real fix right? Just to show > that that's where the problem is I guess. Yup, thanks. I think others have seen a similar problem without the anticipatory scheduling patch, so there may be a couple of problems here, or a strange interaction. > I'll gladly test other patches. OK, thanks. Not sure what to suggest at present. Maybe when Luuk has done the patch iteration and we've fixed whatever is causing his boot failure we can then move on. Are you using RAID at all?