From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] updated data=ordered patch for 2.6.3
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:01:57 -0500
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On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 08:30, Christophe Saout wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Also, the code has some extra performance tweaks to smooth out
> > performance both with and without data=ordered.  There are new
> > mechanisms to trigger metadata/commit block writeback and to help
> > throttle writers.  The goal is to reduce the huge bursts of io during a
> > commit and during data=ordered writeback.
> 
> It seems you introduced a bug here. I installed the patches yesterday
> and found a lockup on my notebook when running lilo (with /boot on the
> root reiserfs filesystem).
> 
> A SysRq-T showed that lilo is stuck in fsync:
> 

Ugh, I use grub so I haven't tried lilo.  Could you please send me the
full sysrq-t, this is probably something stupid.

-chris