Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:33:23 -0800 | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [patch] get_request starvation fix |
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:41:20AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Also, here's a patch which fixes the /bin/sync livelock in > write_unlocked_buffers(). It simply bales out after writing > all the buffers which were dirty at the time the function > was called, rather than keeping on trying to write buffers > until the list is empty.
I've also seen this issue when I start multiple mkfs commands (10 in parallel basically make the system useless), but the patch helped. Any chance it will get into 2.4?
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