From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de>
To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scheduling problem?
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:20:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A533536.A1723DD6@innominate.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A52609D.E1D466EA@innominate.de> <Pine.Linu.4.10.10101030545440.1057-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > Could you try this patch just to see what happens? It uses semaphores
> > for the bdflush synchronization instead of banging directly on the task
> > wait queues. It's supposed to be a drop-in replacement for the bdflush
> > wakeup/waitfor mechanism, but who knows, it may have subtly different
> > behavious in your case.
>
> Semaphore timed out during boot, leaving bdflush as zombie.
Hmm, how could that happen? I'm booted and running with that patch
right now and have beaten on it extensively - it sounds like something
else is broken. Or maybe we've already established that - let me read
the thread again.
Which semaphore timed out, bdflush_request or bdflush_waiter?
--
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-03 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-02 8:27 scheduling problem? Mike Galbraith
2001-01-02 14:01 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-02 14:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-02 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-02 20:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-02 21:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-02 21:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-02 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-02 22:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-03 4:48 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-03 5:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-03 7:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-03 11:30 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-02 23:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-03 4:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-03 14:20 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-01-03 15:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-03 14:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-03 15:39 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-01-03 15:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-03 2:39 ` Roger Larsson
2001-01-03 5:17 ` Mike Galbraith
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