Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:14:32 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Lockups while unpacking huge tarballs (was Re: 2.6.15-$SHA1: VT <-> X sometimes odd) |
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On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:23:54AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > Now it's vim saving 5k proggie while X tarball was unpacking on reiserfs. > > > :wq and vim freezes. Switching to another virtual "desktops" works and > > > everything in general works except vim. But switching to VT and back > > > sends system to hell. > > > > This may be fixed by the current -git tree: > > > > commit 1bc691d3, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>: > > > > [PATCH] fix queue stalling while barrier sequencing > > It isn't. My HEAD is 9f5974c8734d83d4ab7096ed98136a82f41210d6 and I see > this patch in git log output. > > > or if that isn't it, and you have an IDE drive, can you try if the > > appended trivial patch makes a difference? > > > --- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c > > +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c > > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ int __ide_end_request(ide_drive_t *drive > > * for those > > */ > > nbytes = nr_sectors << 9; > > - if (!rq->errors && rq_all_done(rq, nbytes)) { > > + if (0 && !rq->errors && rq_all_done(rq, nbytes)) { > > rq->data_len = nbytes; > > blkdev_dequeue_request(rq); > > HWGROUP(drive)->rq = NULL; > > With this one-liner two X tarballs and one Firefox tarballs were > successfully unpacked while I was hitting :w. > > Without it just one X tarball doesn't pass. It's even reproducable.
Alright thanks for retesting, current git should work for you (once it mirrors out from master).
-- Jens Axboe
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