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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] get_request starvation fix
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:33:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020212163323.A768043@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C639060.A68A42CA@zip.com.au> <3C6791C0.63CA2677@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3C6791C0.63CA2677@zip.com.au>

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:41:20AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Also, here's a patch which fixes the /bin/sync livelock in
> write_unlocked_buffers().  It simply bales out after writing
> all the buffers which were dirty at the time the function
> was called, rather than keeping on trying to write buffers
> until the list is empty.

I've also seen this issue when I start multiple mkfs commands (10 in
parallel basically make the system useless), but the patch helped.
Any chance it will get into 2.4?

Thanks,
Jesse

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-13  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-08  8:46 [patch] get_request starvation fix Andrew Morton
2002-02-08  8:57 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-08  9:57   ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-08  9:10 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-08 11:37 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-08 18:28   ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-11  9:41 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-11 17:35   ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-02-11 19:26     ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-14  6:00       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-02-13  0:33   ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-08 19:31 Dieter Nützel
     [not found] <200202081932.GAA05943@mangalore.zipworld.com.au>
2002-02-08 19:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-08 19:53   ` Dieter Nützel
2002-02-08 20:43   ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-09  1:56 rwhron
2002-02-12 23:13 Andrew Morton
2002-02-13  1:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-15 17:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-02-16  7:32   ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-16 10:13     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-16 10:25       ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-13 13:55 rwhron

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