linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

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Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:17:29 +0800
From:	WU Fengguang <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
To:	Sascha Warner <prx@...atas.ath.cx>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:27:38AM +0100, Sascha Warner wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:08:40 +0100 Sascha Warner <prx@...atas.ath.cx> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I applied your patches to 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, but now I am faced with one
> >> pdflush often using 100% CPU for a long time. There seem to be some rare
> >> pauses from its 100% usage, however.
> >>
> >> On ~23 minutes uptime i have ~19 minutes pdflush runtime.
> >>
> >> This is on E6600, x86_64, 2 Gig RAM, SATA HDD, running on gentoo ~x64_64
> >>
> >> Let me know if you need more info.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > (some) cc's restored.  Please, always do reply-to-all.
> >   
> Hi Wu,
> 
> Your latest patch does fix the seen pdflush 100% issue :)

Thank you.

Andrew: I'll be off line for some days.
The patchset will be updated some time later.

Happy new year~

Fengguang

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