Andrew Morton wrote:
> Try this:
> 
> --- 25/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c~get_request-nastiness	2005-06-29 09:36:27.000000000 -0700
> +++ 25-akpm/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c	2005-06-29 09:36:27.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1918,10 +1918,9 @@ get_rq:
>  	 * limit of requests, otherwise we could have thousands of requests
>  	 * allocated with any setting of ->nr_requests
>  	 */
> -	if (rl->count[rw] >= (3 * q->nr_requests / 2)) {
> -		spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> +	if (rl->count[rw] >= (3 * q->nr_requests / 2))
>  		goto out;
> -	}
> +
>  	rl->count[rw]++;
>  	rl->starved[rw] = 0;
>  	if (rl->count[rw] >= queue_congestion_on_threshold(q))

working fine now.
No spurious messages in /var/log/kern.log or in /var/log/syslog.

Thanks,
Toufeeq

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