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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 11:22:20 +1000
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On Thu, 29 May 2003 10:55, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Here goes -rc6. I've decided to delay 2.4.21 a bit and try Andrew's fix
> for the IO stalls/deadlocks.

Good for you. Well done Marcelo!

> Please test it.

Yes everyone who gets these stalls please test it also!

> Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>:
>   o Fix IO stalls and deadlocks

For those interested these are patches 1 and 2 from akpm's proposed fixes in 
the looong thread discussing this problem.

Con