From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262063AbTE2JsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 05:48:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262073AbTE2JsH (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 05:48:07 -0400 Received: from c17870.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:3763 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262063AbTE2JsG (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 05:48:06 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Marcelo Tosatti , lkml Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc6 Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 20:02:34 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305292002.34494.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 29 May 2003 10:55, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Hi, > > Here goes -rc6. I've decided to delay 2.4.21 a bit and try Andrew's fix > for the IO stalls/deadlocks. > > Please test it. > > > Andrew Morton : > o Fix IO stalls and deadlocks As this is only patches 1 and 2 from akpm's suggested changes I was wondering if my report got lost in the huge thread so I've included it here: Ok patch combination final score for me is as follows in the presence of a large continuous write: 1 No change 2 No change 3 improvement++; minor hangs with reads 1+2 improvement+++; minor pauses with switching applications 1+2+3 improvement++++; no pauses Applications may start up slowly that's fine. The mouse cursor keeps spinning and responding at all times though with 1+2+3 which it hasn't done in 2.4 for a year or so. Is there a reason the 3rd patch was omitted? Con