From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269868AbTGKKag (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:30:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269869AbTGKKag (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:30:36 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:59627 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269868AbTGKKaf (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:30:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 03:45:10 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin Cc: rathamahata@php4.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug 898] New: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop responding while extracting big tar archive file. Message-Id: <20030711034510.30065dc2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3F0E8A22.6020700@cyberone.com.au> References: <111930000.1057904059@[10.10.2.4]> <200307111346.39731.rathamahata@php4.ru> <3F0E8A22.6020700@cyberone.com.au> 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 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin wrote: > > You're sure 2.5.74 got processes stuck in D? That means its possibly > a driver bug. If you can get 2.5.75 to hang, please also try with > elevator=deadline. Thank you. No, this will be the reiserfs bug. --- 25/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c~reiserfs-dirty-memory-fix 2003-07-10 22:22:54.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c 2003-07-10 22:22:54.000000000 -0700 @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ unmap_buffers(struct page *page, loff_t bh = next ; } while (bh != head) ; if ( PAGE_SIZE == bh->b_size ) { - ClearPageDirty(page); + clear_page_dirty(page); } } } _