From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269958AbTGKN3V (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:29:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269957AbTGKN3V (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:29:21 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:34822 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269959AbTGKN3Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:29:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:38:40 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Chris Mason Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, ia6432@inbox.ru, green@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem Message-Id: <20030711153840.427909e2.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <1057929320.13317.26.camel@tiny.suse.com> References: <20030710191254.093354d2.skraw@ithnet.com> <1057929320.13317.26.camel@tiny.suse.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (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 On 11 Jul 2003 09:15:21 -0400 Chris Mason wrote: > > Andrea, Chris, any idea of why this is happening? > > My first guess is that blk_oversized_queue is false but there aren't any > requests left. That will pretty much spin in __get_request_wait with > irqs off, which sounds similar to what he's hitting. > > I think we need this hunk even if it doesn't fix his problem. Strike! Your patch solves my problem. I applied it on 2.4.22-pre4 and it now works just like -pre2 did. Great Chris, compared to the pretty minimal input I could give ... Regards, Stephan