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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-mm1: many processes end up in D state
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 10:40:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4636FCE3.6000405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430114449.1dad1ab2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> I would check the anticipatory scheduler as well, please.  I don't know
> what no-op would do with a workload like that, but it probably isn't very
> good.
> 
> You appear to believe that it's related to the CPU scheduler?  

Oh, no. I have really no idea, what may cause this :).

> That's a bit
> unexpected - it sounds more like a VFS/IO thing?  But stranger things have
> happened.

I think so.

> I guess it's time to end the staircase experiment in -mm. 
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/js.bz2 is my current rollup (against
> 2.6.21) minus staircase and related things.  Pretty please.

Anticipatory + -js is no change. Going to try vanilla and in both cases whether
it works or not, I'll bisect either -mm or vanilla.

regards,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint:
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-30 15:39 2.6.21-mm1: many processes end up in D state Jiri Slaby
2007-04-30 18:05 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-30 18:14   ` Jiri Slaby
2007-04-30 18:44     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-01  8:40       ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2007-05-01 10:06 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-05-04 14:58   ` Jiri Slaby
2007-05-04 15:02     ` Jiri Slaby
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-04 19:19 Mikael Pettersson
2007-05-05 15:30 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-05 23:46 Mikael Pettersson
2007-05-07  9:52 ` Jiri Slaby

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