Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.5.34-mm4 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 16 Sep 2002 02:33:36 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 19:56, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > - In -ac, there are noticeable stalls during heavy writeout. This > > may be an ext3 thing, but I can't think of any IO scheduling > > differences in -ac ext3. I'd be guessing that it is due to > > bdflush/kupdate lumpiness.
I think so. I've always been conservative, I need rmap to pass cerberus still. But the rmap in -ac is out of date a little with the 2.5 tuning
> This is also due to the fact that -ac has an older -rmap > VM. As in current 2.5, rmap can write out all inactive > pages ... and it did in some worst case situations. > > This is fixed in rmap14. > > (I hope Alan is done playing with IDE soon so I can push > him a VM update)
The big one left to fix is the simplex device bug - which is an "I know why". The great mystery is the affair of taskfile pio write. Other than that its annoying glitches not big problems now.
So send me rmap-14a patches by all means
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