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Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc8-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.28
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:23:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903230922440.3030@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090323005738.GB6003@localhost>
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> >
> > I think this was tracked back to the effective halving of
> > dirty_ratio by 1cf6e7d83 ("mm: task dirty accounting fix") and
> > doubling the ratio fixed the iozone regression.
>
> Yes, exactly. The patch for fixing this regression is trivial.
I was planning on applying that patch only after 2.6.29 is out, and then
if there are no surprising side effects and nobody complains, we'd then
back-port it into stable.
Linus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-23 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-21 16:28 2.6.29-rc8-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.28 Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-03-21 16:39 ` [Bug #12681] s2ram: fails to wake up on Acer Extensa 4220 (SMP disabled) Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-03-21 20:05 ` 2.6.29-rc8-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.28 Ingo Molnar
2009-03-23 0:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-23 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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