Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensiveworkload

2000-09-25 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Molnar Ingo wrote: > > > > i'm still getting VM related lockups during heavy write load, in > > test9-pre5 + your 2.4.0-t9p2-vmpatch (which i understand as being your > > last VM related fix-patch, correct?). Here is a histogram of

Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensiveworkload

2000-09-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Molnar Ingo wrote: > > i'm still getting VM related lockups during heavy write load, in > test9-pre5 + your 2.4.0-t9p2-vmpatch (which i understand as being your > last VM related fix-patch, correct?). Here is a histogram of such a > lockup: Rik, those VM patches are goin

Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensiveworkload

2000-09-22 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
If the process that barfed is swapper then this is the oops that I got in test9-pre4 w/o any patches. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=96936789621245&w=2 On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, André Dahlqvist wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:27:30AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Linus, > >

Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensiveworkload

2000-09-22 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Molnar Ingo wrote: > yep this has done the trick, the deadlock is gone. I've attached the full > VM-fixes patch (this fix included) against vanilla test9-pre5. Linus, could you please include this patch in the next pre patch? (in the mean time, I'll go back to looking at t

Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensiveworkload

2000-09-22 Thread Molnar Ingo
yep this has done the trick, the deadlock is gone. I've attached the full VM-fixes patch (this fix included) against vanilla test9-pre5. Ingo --- linux/fs/buffer.c.orig Fri Sep 22 02:31:07 2000 +++ linux/fs/buffer.c Fri Sep 22 02:31:13 2000 @@ -706,9 +706,7 @@ static void re

Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensiveworkload

2000-09-22 Thread Molnar Ingo
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > 894 if (current->need_resched && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) { > 895 __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); > 896 schedule(); > 897 } > The idea was to not allow processes which have IO locks > to schedul

Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensiveworkload

2000-09-22 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Molnar Ingo wrote: > i'm still getting VM related lockups during heavy write load, in > test9-pre5 + your 2.4.0-t9p2-vmpatch (which i understand as being your > last VM related fix-patch, correct?). Here is a histogram of such a > lockup: > this lockup happens both during va

Re: test9-pre5+t9p2-vmpatch VM deadlock during write-intensiveworkload

2000-09-22 Thread Molnar Ingo
btw. - no swapdevice here. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/