On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> - sync_page(page);
> set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> + sync_page(page);
> - run_task_queue(&tq_disk);
> set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> + run_task_queue(&tq_disk);
these look like genuine fixes, but i dont think they can explain the hangs
i had yesterday - those were simple VM deadlocks. I dont see any deadlocks
today - but i'm running the unsafe B2 variant of the vmfixes patch. (and i
have no swapping enabled which simplifies my VM setup.)
but one of these two fixes could explain the slowdown i saw on and off for
quite some time, seeing very bad read performance occasionally. (do you
remember my sched.c tq_disc hack?)
Ingo
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