Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 10:41:46 EST


Hello,

Can you try this updated patch? I believe the blk_congestion_wait is
just wrong there, since there may be just one page being flushed. That
sounds like a longstanding bug except it normally wouldn't trigger
because the dirty levels never goes down near zero during heavy writes.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.14-rc1/per-task-predictive-write-throttling-3
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