Re: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop responding while extracting big tar archive file.

[Mike Fedyk]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:45:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nick Piggin <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > You're sure 2.5.74 got processes stuck in D? That means its possibly
> >  a driver bug. If you can get 2.5.75 to hang, please also try with
> >  elevator=deadline. Thank you.
> 
> No, this will be the reiserfs bug.

Is this in 2.5.75, or -mm?

(I just compiled vanilla 2.5.75, and I have a reiserfs root partition, so
I'd like to know it I need to patch and recompile)

> 
> --- 25/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c~reiserfs-dirty-memory-fix	2003-07-10 22:22:54.000000000 -0700
> +++ 25-akpm/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c	2003-07-10 22:22:54.000000000 -0700
> @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ unmap_buffers(struct page *page, loff_t 
>  	bh = next ;
>        } while (bh != head) ;
>        if ( PAGE_SIZE == bh->b_size ) {
> -	ClearPageDirty(page);
> +	clear_page_dirty(page);
>        }
>      }
>    } 
> 
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