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Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:48:40 -0300
From:	Fernando Silveira <fsilveira@...il.com>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I/O and pdflush

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:04, Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:27:25PM -0300, Fernando Silveira wrote:
>> I'm having a hard time with an application that writes sequentially
>> 250GB of non-stop data directly to a solid state disk (OCZ SSD CORE
>> v2) device and I hope you can help me. The command "dd if=/dev/zero
>> of=/dev/sdc bs=4M" reproduces the same symptoms I'm having and writes
>> exactly as that application does.
>
> What's your kernel version?  Can the following patch help?

Sorry for the delay, but I could not test it before.

Unfortunately it did not help or change any symptoms at all. The
kernel version I tested was a non-patched 2.6.30.1 version.

Do you have any other hint?

-- 
Fernando Silveira <fsilveira@...il.com>
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