[Bug 14972] [regression] msync() call on ext4 causes disk thrashing

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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14972





--- Comment #3 from Artem S. Tashkinov <t.artem@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  2010-01-02 15:10:03 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Regression from what?  Ext3?  Or some earlier kernel version?

Regression from ext3.

> 
> What arguments are you giving to this test program of yours?   It looks like it
> does some number of reads and/or writes to the file, and then calls 10,000
> msyncs with 50ms wait between each msync.

While doing those msync()s mmap file is unchanged, but ...

> 
> I'm not seeing any disk activity as a result.   Was anything else reading or
> writing to the file or to the file system at the same time?

... my HDD led keeps flashing continuously which certainly means some disk
activity. Should I attach a video showing this abnormality on kernel 2.6.32.2
on runlevel 1 with no application running except bash and this application?

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