Re: Sync writeback still broken

From: Jan Kara
Date: Fri Nov 05 2010 - 17:35:06 EST


On Fri 05-11-10 22:33:24, Jan Kara wrote:
> I needed one more patch to resolve the issue (attached) which I've just
> posted for review and possible inclusion. I had a similar one long time ago
> but now I'm better able to explain why it works because of tracepoints.
> Yay! ;). With those three patches I'm not able to trigger livelocks (but
> sync takes still 15 minutes because the througput to disk is about 4MB/s -
> no big surprise given the random nature of the load)
PS: And big thanks to you for providing the test case and your
persistence ;)

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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