Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem

From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
	ia6432@inbox.ru, green@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:15:59 -0300 (BRT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.55L.0307111215380.29472@freak.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030711153840.427909e2.skraw@ithnet.com>

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

> On 11 Jul 2003 09:15:21 -0400
> Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:
>
> > > Andrea, Chris, any idea of why this is happening?
> >
> > My first guess is that blk_oversized_queue is false but there aren't any
> > requests left.  That will pretty much spin in __get_request_wait with
> > irqs off, which sounds similar to what he's hitting.
> >
> > I think we need this hunk even if it doesn't fix his problem.
>
> Strike!
> Your patch solves my problem. I applied it on 2.4.22-pre4 and it now works just
> like -pre2 did.
> Great Chris, compared to the pretty minimal input I could give ...

The fix is already in my BK tree.

Thanks a lot Chris and Stephan.