From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756112Ab0BBPUO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:20:14 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f228.google.com ([209.85.219.228]:48583 "EHLO mail-ew0-f228.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753413Ab0BBPUL (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:20:11 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=jRep7yGJuC8oC2M/ZYdLhhuH5L6SCjxio0PupT5OlrQSlfVYaB59Cr39gMUKWx79mf tSk5IFntN4YEm9Q0m8scSbIOOINb1x67Tp6uhJPB4NHD2OlaQBSgBUQouwvAOGC3vMN8 UmshJqeQficOIdEhSjFucjqzNFxySiCEeUA90= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100202130002.68E043A6641@erode.bofh.it> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:20:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Phoronix test From: Marco To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org What commit is responsible for the boost in IO thread tester shown on phoronix (at 31/01/2010)? http://www.phoromatic.com/kernel-tracker.php And is really ext4 so unreliable as they say in here?: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzk0OA It happens also to me using git master: several times my GPU goes wild (i915) and the only thing to do is press the halt button. And ext4 sometimes looses data, without doing a fsck at restart. Is there a way to know something went wrong, even if fsck did not say anything? Bye Marco