On Tuesday 11 December 2007 05:15, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Now about that block writeout deadlock... it doesn't just affect my > > code, it basically breaks Linux as a storage platform, among other > > things. > > As written in other similar threads in the past in which you also > participated, I still of the opinion that this is a vm issue and > should be solved as such.
The problem is solved. The main cornerstone of the solution is bio throttling, simply because the resources in question are consumed by bio transactions. > As to the patch in question "fixing" it in the block layer, it's a > fairly simple work around and I'm not totally against it. If you get > rid of the ->bi_throttle stuff and just do sanity checks on the > count, then we could look at getting some testing done. Testing is already progressing fine without you, thankyou. If you do want to participate, welcome, otherwise it is not a problem. Thanks for picking up that bug yesterday. Daniel -- 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/
