Jari Ruusu wrote: > These lockups appear to be result of nasty bugs in the block layer elevator > code. I have been able to reproduce them as well. [snip] > Please don't bother with that 23-Jan-2003 patch. Loop code appears to be > okay in loop-AES-v1.7a. Can you try applying attached patch to 2.4.21-pre3 > kernel and try again? It is based on Andrea Arcangeli's fix-pausing-2 patch. I found and fixed one more bug in block layer elevator. Please don't waste time testing that fix-pausing-2c patch, but test attached fix-pausing-2e patch instead. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
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