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Message-ID: <4636FCE3.6000405@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 10:40:03 +0200
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-mm1: many processes end up in D state
Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> I would check the anticipatory scheduler as well, please. I don't know
> what no-op would do with a workload like that, but it probably isn't very
> good.
>
> You appear to believe that it's related to the CPU scheduler?
Oh, no. I have really no idea, what may cause this :).
> That's a bit
> unexpected - it sounds more like a VFS/IO thing? But stranger things have
> happened.
I think so.
> I guess it's time to end the staircase experiment in -mm.
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/js.bz2 is my current rollup (against
> 2.6.21) minus staircase and related things. Pretty please.
Anticipatory + -js is no change. Going to try vanilla and in both cases whether
it works or not, I'll bisect either -mm or vanilla.
regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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