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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: jplatte@naasa.net
Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:41:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200310886.15103.1.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801141230.13694.jplatte@naasa.net>


On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:30 +0100, Joerg Platte wrote:
> Am Montag, 14. Januar 2008 schrieb Fengguang Wu:
> 
> > Joerg, this patch fixed the bug for me :-)
> 
> Fengguang, congratulations, I can confirm that your patch fixed the bug! With 
> previous kernels the bug showed up after each reboot. Now, when booting the 
> patched kernel everything is fine and there is no longer any suspicious 
> iowait!
> 
> Do you have an idea why this problem appeared in 2.6.24? Did somebody change 
> the ext2 code or is it related to the changes in the scheduler?

It was Fengguang who changed the inode writeback code, and I guess the
new and improved code was less able do deal with these funny corner
cases. But he has been very good in tracking them down and solving them,
kudos to him for that work!




  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-14 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-07 10:51 regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX Joerg Platte
2008-01-07 11:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-07 13:24   ` Joerg Platte
2008-01-07 13:32     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-07 13:40       ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]         ` <E1JCRbA-0002bh-3c@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-09  3:27           ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-09  6:13             ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]               ` <E1JCZg2-0001DE-RP@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-09 12:04                 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-09 12:22                   ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]                     ` <E1JCaUd-0001Ko-Tt@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-09 12:57                       ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-09 13:04                         ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]                           ` <E1JCrMj-0001HR-SZ@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-10  6:58                             ` Fengguang Wu
     [not found]                           ` <E1JCrsE-0000v4-Dz@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-10  7:30                             ` Fengguang Wu
     [not found]                           ` <20080110073046.GA3432@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
     [not found]                             ` <E1JCsDr-0002cl-0e@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-10  7:53                               ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-10  8:37                                 ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]                                   ` <E1JCt0n-00048n-AD@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-10  8:43                                     ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-10 10:03                                       ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]                                         ` <E1JDBk4-0000UF-03@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-11  4:43                                           ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-11  5:29                                             ` Joerg Platte
2008-01-11  6:41                                               ` Joerg Platte
2008-01-12 23:32                                             ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]                                               ` <E1JDwaA-00017Q-W6@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-13  6:44                                                 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-13  8:05                                                   ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]                                                     ` <E1JDy5a-0001al-Tk@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-13  8:21                                                       ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-13  9:49                                                         ` Joerg Platte
     [not found]                                                           ` <E1JE1Uz-0002w5-6z@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-13 11:59                                                             ` Fengguang Wu
     [not found]                                                           ` <20080113115933.GA11045@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
     [not found]                                                             ` <E1JEGPH-0001uw-Df@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-14  3:54                                                               ` Fengguang Wu
     [not found]                                                             ` <20080114035439.GA7330@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
     [not found]                                                               ` <E1JEM2I-00010S-5U@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-14  9:55                                                                 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-14 11:30                                                                   ` Joerg Platte
2008-01-14 11:41                                                                     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
     [not found]                                                                       ` <E1JEOmD-0001Ap-U7@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-14 12:50                                                                         ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 21:13                                                                           ` Mike Snitzer
     [not found]                                                                             ` <E1JF0m1-000101-OK@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-16  5:25                                                                               ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 21:42                                                                         ` Ingo Molnar
     [not found]                                                                           ` <E1JF0bJ-0000zU-FG@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-16  5:14                                                                             ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-16  9:26 Martin Knoblauch
     [not found] ` <E1JF6w8-0000vs-HM@localhost.localdomain>
2008-01-16 12:00   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-16 14:15 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-16 16:27 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-01-17 13:52 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-17 16:11 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-01-17 17:44 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-17 20:23 ` Mel Gorman
2008-01-17 17:51 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-17 21:50 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-17 22:12 ` Mel Gorman
2008-01-18  8:19 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-18 16:01 ` Mel Gorman
2008-01-18 17:46   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-18 19:01     ` Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-18 19:23       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-22 14:39       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-01-18 20:00     ` Mike Snitzer
2008-01-18 22:47       ` Mike Snitzer
2008-01-19 10:24 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-22 15:25 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-22 23:40 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-01-22 18:51 Martin Knoblauch
2008-01-23 11:12 Martin Knoblauch

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