Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16

Dieter Nützel (Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de)
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:51:28 +0100


Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 20:42 schrieb Torrey Hoffman:
> Yes, I just looked at the code in /fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c and
> the comment block above the warning message specifically mentions
> the low-latency patches.
>
> I feel better now, looks like my filesystem is safe...
>
> Torrey

So may I ask you to give 2.4.16 + preempt + lock-break (it is an additional
one which do the same as Andrew's low-latency) a try?

Please run an MP3 or Ogg-Vorbis together with dbench. As you have a dual PIII
I am very interested. I will buy a dual Athlon XP/MP, soon.

Thanks,
Dieter

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > fall over, and during the run I got the following error/
> > > warning message printed about 20 times on the console
> > > and in the kernel log:
> > >
> > > vs-4150: reiserfs_new_blocknrs, block not free<4>
> >
> > uh-oh. I probably broke reiserfs in the low-latency patch.
> >
> > It's fairly harmless - we drop the big kernel lock, schedule
> > away. Upon resumption, the block we had decided to allocate
> > has been allocated by someone else. The filesystem emits a
> > warning and goes off to find a different block.
> >
> > Will fix.

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