Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

[Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>]

----- Original Message ----
> From: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
> To: Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
> Cc: Sascha Warner <prx@cinatas.ath.cx>; Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:33:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications
> 
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:56:59PM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007 schrieb Sascha Warner:
> > > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:08:40 +0100 Sascha
> Warner
> 
  
> > wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> I applied your patches to 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, but now I am
> faced
> 
 with one
> > > >> pdflush often using 100% CPU for a long time. There seem to
> be
> 
 some
> > > >> rare pauses from its 100% usage, however.
> > > >>
> > > >> On ~23 minutes uptime i have ~19 minutes pdflush runtime.
> > > >>
> > > >> This is on E6600, x86_64, 2 Gig RAM, SATA HDD, running on gentoo
> > > >> ~x64_64
> > > >>
> > > >> Let me know if you need more info.
> > > >
> > > > (some) cc's restored.  Please, always do reply-to-all.
> > >
> > > Hi Wu,
> > 
> > Sascha, if you want to address Fengguang by his first name, note
> that
> 
 
> > chinese and bavarians (and some others I forgot now, too)
> typically
> 
 use the 
> > order:
> >   
> >   lastname firstname 
> > 
> > when they spell their names. Another evidence is, that the name Wu
> is
> 
 a 
> > pretty common chinese family name.
> > 
> > Fengguang, if it's the other way around, correct me please (and
> I'm
> 
 going to 
> > wear a big brown paper bag for the rest of the day..). 
> 
> You are right. We normally do "Fengguang" or "Mr. Wu" :-)
> For LKML the first name is less ambiguous.
> 
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
> 

 Just cannot resist. Hans-Peter mentions Bavarian using Lastname-Givenname as well. This is only true in a folklore context (or when you are very deep in the countryside). Officially the bavarians use the usual German Given/Lastname. Although they will never admit to be Germans, of course :-)


Cheers
Martin