From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267625AbUGWK6g (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:58:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267626AbUGWK6f (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:58:35 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.245]:33363 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267625AbUGWK60 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:58:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30407230358141e0e58@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:58:22 +0200 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-I3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rudo Thomas , Matt Heler In-Reply-To: <20040723104246.GA2752@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040721211826.GB30871@elte.hu> <20040721223749.GA2863@yoda.timesys> <20040722100657.GA14909@elte.hu> <20040722160055.GA4837@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20040722161941.GA23972@elte.hu> <20040722172428.GA5632@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20040722175457.GA5855@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20040722180142.GC30059@elte.hu> <20040722180821.GA377@elte.hu> <20040722181426.GA892@elte.hu> <20040723104246.GA2752@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:42:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i've uploaded the -I3 voluntary-preempt patch: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-I3 > > it mainly fixes an ext3 livelock that could result in long delays during > heavy commit traffic. Hello Ingo, do you have any measurement of the improvement available ? Thanks. Ciao, Paolo -- paoloc.doesntexist.org