On 2014-05-05 3:30 PM, Nikolay Amiantov wrote: > 2014-05-02 1:52 GMT+04:00 Slava Pestov : >> There were two issues here: >> >> - writeback thread did not start until the device first became dirty >> - writeback thread used uninterruptible sleep once running >> >> Without this patch I see kernel warnings printed and a load average of >> 1.52 after booting my test VM. With this patch the warnings are gone and >> the load average is near 0.00 as expected. > I've tried this patch and it has indeed fixed [1]! Thanks! > > [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69471 Kent, Could you please review this patch, and have it pushed upstream? Regards, -Peter