From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265635AbTFNHrn (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2003 03:47:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265636AbTFNHrn (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2003 03:47:43 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:54730 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265635AbTFNHrm (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2003 03:47:42 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:01:39 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Mingming Cao Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.5.70-mm9 Message-Id: <20030614010139.2f0f1348.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <3EEAD41B.2090709@us.ibm.com> References: <20030613013337.1a6789d9.akpm@digeo.com> <3EEAD41B.2090709@us.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jun 2003 08:01:31.0287 (UTC) FILETIME=[2A76CA70:01C3324B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mingming Cao wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.70/2.5.70-mm9/ > > > > > > Lots of fixes, lots of new things. > > > > Good news, Andrew. I run 50 fsx tests on ext3 filesystems on 2.5.70-mm9. > The hang problem I used seen on 2.5.70-mm6 kernel is gone. The tests > runs fine for more than 9 hours. (Normally the problem will occur after > 7 hours run on 2.5.70-mm6 kernel). OK. I'm no statistician, but I'd be more comfortable with 24 hours.. > I am running the tests on 8 way PIII 700MHz, 4G memory, with > elevator=deadline. > Was elevator=deadline observed to fail in earlier kernels? If not then it may be an anticipatory scheduler bug. It certainly had all the appearances of that. So once you're really sure that elevator=deadline isn't going to fail, could you please test elevator=as?