Re: Sync writeback still broken

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri 05-11-10 22:33:24, Jan Kara wrote:
>>   I needed one more patch to resolve the issue (attached) which I've just
>> posted for review and possible inclusion. I had a similar one long time ago
>> but now I'm better able to explain why it works because of tracepoints.
>> Yay! ;). With those three patches I'm not able to trigger livelocks (but
>> sync takes still 15 minutes because the througput to disk is about 4MB/s -
>> no big surprise given the random nature of the load)
>  PS: And big thanks to you for providing the test case and your
> persistence ;)

Ok, I'm inclined to just apply these three patches. Can we get a quick
ack/tested-by for them? I'm sure there's more work to be done, but
let's put this damn thing to rest if it really does fix the problem
Jan(E) sees.

Comments?

                     Linus
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