Re: [PATCH] Time sliced CFQ #2

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Dec 06 2004, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this one crapped out on me, while having heavy disk activity. (updating 
>  gentoo portage tree - rebuilding metadata of it). Unfortunately I 
> couldn't save the oops, as I had no hd access anymore and X would freeze 
> a little later...(and I don't want to risk my data a second time...)

Did you save anything at all? Just the function of the EIP would be
better than nothing.
> 
> I think it had to do with preempt, or even preempt big kernel lock, as I 
> could read something about it. I applied your patch to 2.6.10_rc3-ck1. I 
> attached my config, if you want to try yourself with that kernel. cfq2 
> runs w/o probs.

Well hard to say anything qualified without an oops :/

I'll try with PREEMPT here.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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