On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 15:25 +1100, David Chinner wrote: > I'm struggling to understand what possible changed in XFS or writeback that > would lead to stalls like this, esp. as you appear to be removing files when > the stalls occur. Just a crazy idea,.. Could there be a set_page_dirty() that doesn't have balance_dirty_pages() call near? For example modifying meta data in unlink? Such a situation could lead to an excess of dirty pages and the next call to balance_dirty_pages() would appear to stall, as it would desperately try to get below the limit again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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