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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-$SHA1: VT <-> X sometimes odd
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:23:54 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601121119100.3535@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060112192856.GA7938@mipter.zuzino.mipt.ru>



On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> Now it's vim saving 5k proggie while X tarball was unpacking on reiserfs.
> :wq and vim freezes. Switching to another virtual "desktops" works and
> everything in general works except vim. But switching to VT and back
> sends system to hell.

This may be fixed by the current -git tree:

	commit 1bc691d3, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>:

	[PATCH] fix queue stalling while barrier sequencing

or if that isn't it, and you have an IDE drive, can you try if the 
appended trivial patch makes a difference?

			Linus

---
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
index bcbaeb5..d726167 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ int __ide_end_request(ide_drive_t *drive
 	 * for those
 	 */
 	nbytes = nr_sectors << 9;
-	if (!rq->errors && rq_all_done(rq, nbytes)) {
+	if (0 && !rq->errors && rq_all_done(rq, nbytes)) {
 		rq->data_len = nbytes;
 		blkdev_dequeue_request(rq);
 		HWGROUP(drive)->rq = NULL;

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-12 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-10 16:23 2.6.15-$SHA1: VT <-> X sometimes odd Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-11 11:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 15:38   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-12 19:28     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-12 19:23       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-01-12 20:04         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-12 20:08           ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-12 20:23         ` Lockups while unpacking huge tarballs (was Re: 2.6.15-$SHA1: VT <-> X sometimes odd) Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-12 20:14           ` Jens Axboe

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