From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753195Ab0CDOze (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:55:34 -0500 Received: from oceanic.CalvaEDI.COM ([89.202.194.168]:38747 "EHLO oceanic.CalvaEDI.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751756Ab0CDOzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:55:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4B8FC9F8.1050700@Calva.COM> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:55:52 +0100 From: John Hughes User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Noll CC: Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 15426] New: Running many copies of bonnie++ on different filesystems seems to deadlock in sync References: <20100302161627.bf02d0a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4B8E517E.3010702@Calva.COM> <20100303115015.GN5768@kernel.dk> <4B8E5805.30505@Calva.COM> <20100303120317.GP5768@kernel.dk> <20100303144241.GF21495@skl-net.de> In-Reply-To: <20100303144241.GF21495@skl-net.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andre Noll wrote: > On 13:03, Jens Axboe wrote: > > >> Our sync is currently broken in that regard, since it'll wait for too >> long. We have a debated patch going, I have included it below. Any >> chance you could give it a whirl? >> > > That's the same patch you posted two weeks ago and on which Linus > commented he thinks it is broken. He also proposed another, simpler > patch (included below) which I'm running for a few days and which > fixes the sync problem for me. > I've tried the "simpler patch" on my system and it makes no difference for me.