From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: Sync writeback still broken
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 22:34:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101105213456.GB25520@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101105213324.GA25520@quack.suse.cz>
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 ;)
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-12 9:16 [PATCH] writeback: Fix broken sync writeback Jens Axboe
2010-02-12 15:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-13 12:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-15 14:49 ` Jan Kara
2010-02-15 15:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-15 15:58 ` Jan Kara
2010-06-27 16:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-24 23:41 ` Sync writeback still broken Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-30 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-30 1:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-30 1:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-30 3:18 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-30 13:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-31 12:24 ` Jan Kara
2010-10-31 22:40 ` Jan Kara
2010-11-05 21:33 ` Jan Kara
2010-11-05 21:34 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2010-11-05 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-05 22:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-11-07 12:57 ` Jan Kara
2011-01-20 22:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-21 15:09 ` Jan Kara
2010-02-15 14:17 ` [PATCH] writeback: Fix broken sync writeback Jan Kara
2010-02-16 0:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-16 23:00 ` Jan Kara
2010-02-16 23:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-17 0:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-17 1:33 ` Jan Kara
2010-02-17 1:57 ` Dave Chinner
2010-02-17 3:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-17 4:30 ` tytso
2010-02-17 5:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-22 17:29 ` Jan Kara
2010-02-22 21:01 ` tytso
2010-02-22 22:26 ` Jan Kara
2010-02-23 2:53 ` Dave Chinner
2010-02-23 3:23 ` tytso
2010-02-23 5:53 ` Dave Chinner
2010-02-24 14:56 ` Jan Kara
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