Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Subject | Re: [BENCH] Problems with IO throughput and fairness with 2.4.10 and 2.4.9-ac15 | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:58:12 -0500 | From | Steve Lord <> |
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> Thanks, nice to hear. > > So it needs to be something stupid on my side or xfs with the new VM. > > By the way. It is an Atlon 1.1 (kernel compiled with Atlon optimisation) > IDE controller ATA66, disk IBM 15 GB ATA33 > The machine is solid with and without VIA pci bit 7 byte 55 zero/one > swapspace 256MB > > preempable patch does not help with my D state problem > i have not tried 2.4.10.aa1 > but i will try with ext2 instead of xfs next time > > Gerold >
Hi,
Can you try XFS with this change, just to confirm you are seeing the same problem I am seeing. I am not proposing this as a permanent fix yet, just confirming what the deadlock is.
Thanks
Steve
=========================================================================== Index: linux/fs/inode.c ===========================================================================
--- /usr/tmp/TmpDir.21835-0/linux/fs/inode.c_1.53 Fri Sep 28 12:57:27 2001 +++ linux/fs/inode.c Fri Sep 28 10:17:49 2001 @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static kmem_cache_t * inode_cachep; #define alloc_inode() \ - ((struct inode *) kmem_cache_alloc(inode_cachep, SLAB_KERNEL)) + ((struct inode *) kmem_cache_alloc(inode_cachep, SLAB_NOFS)) static void destroy_inode(struct inode *inode) { if (inode_has_buffers(inode))
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