public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: David <david@unsolicited.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:46:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <394418014.24002@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <E1IpegZ-0001aK-OJ@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071107142609.071532ad.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:26:09PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:17:17 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:00:06PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > 
> > > Could you try with the attached 4 patches? Two of them are expected to
> > > fix your problem, another two are debugging ones(in case the problem
> > > persists).
> > 
> > Applying these four patches fixes it for me.  Obviously the reiserfs patch
> > was not relevant in  my case (only using ext3).
> 
> I am now running on a kernel with just the
> mm-speed-up-writeback-ramp-up-on-clean-systems.patch applied and I am
> seeing no hangs.

Thank you(including David:-)) for the confirmation.

Andrew: so mm-speed-up-writeback-ramp-up-on-clean-systems.patch is a
safe and working patch ;-)

Fengguang


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-05 18:23 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup David
2007-11-06  6:46 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-11-06 12:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-07  3:24   ` Stephen Rothwell
     [not found] ` <E1IpJLy-0002ag-TL@localhost>
2007-11-06  8:00   ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-06 18:03     ` David
     [not found]   ` <E1IpJgH-0003H1-AD@localhost>
2007-11-06  8:21     ` Fengguang Wu
2007-11-07  3:17       ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-11-07  3:26         ` Stephen Rothwell
     [not found]           ` <E1IpegZ-0001aK-OJ@localhost>
2007-11-07  6:46             ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2007-11-13  5:11               ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-11-13  5:29                 ` Andrew Morton

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=394418014.24002@ustc.edu.cn \
    --to=wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn \
    --cc=a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=david@unsolicited.net \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=sfr@canb.auug.org.au \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox