On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:14:14AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:03:33PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > Or will the system or fs size/age make any difference? If you happen > > to have a spare/swap partition, could you make a new reiserfs and > > mount it and copy several less-than-4KB files into it and wait for 30s > > and see what happen to pdflush? > > I will try that with a USB disk - I hope that won't make a difference.
Thank you. I guess a reiserfs on loop file would also be OK. > > btw, what's the exact kernel version you are running? > > I noticed it with the kernel in the $SUBJECT, as reported by 'git > describe'. I have pulled in new changesets since then. And with the following patch applied? --- fs/reiserfs/stree.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.24-git17.orig/fs/reiserfs/stree.c +++ linux-2.6.24-git17/fs/reiserfs/stree.c @@ -1458,9 +1458,6 @@ static void unmap_buffers(struct page *p } bh = next; } while (bh != head); - if (PAGE_SIZE == bh->b_size) { - cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); - } } } } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/