Re: 2.6.4-mm2

[Chris Mason]

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:53, Daniel McNeil wrote:
> I'm ran 2.6.4-mm2 plus the 2 wait_on_page_range() patches,
> the test_set_page_writeback() patch and clear_page_dirty_for_io patch
> overnight.
> 
> 6 copies of direct_read_under test on 8-cpu system on 1
> ext3 file system in 1 directory on a scsi disk.
> (http://developer.osdl.org/daniel/AIO/TESTS/direct_read_under.c)
> 
> 5 of the 6 tests saw uninitialized data within 2 hours.
> The sixth test ran overnight.

Do you still have the errors generated?  I wondering how big the range
of uninitialized data was.  When I was bug hunting yesterday, I saw
ranges from 64k to 32mb in size, which was why I decided writes weren't
getting to the disk at all.

It might be interesting to try with data=writeback, or on ext2.  Things
might be easier to track if we're not worried about ll_rw_block.

It might also be interesting to significantly lower the size of the
reads and writes done by direct_read_under, or anything else you can
think of to get the reproduce time down to something smaller than 2
hours...

It's probably a good idea to upgrade to 2.6.5-rc1-mm2, just so we're all
staring at the same code.

-chris


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