On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:54:12PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > ext3: dbench1 queues a buffer, blocks on journal mutex, it's plug is not > pulled. dbench2 mutex owner is waiting for kjournald, who is waiting for > the buffer queued by dbench1. Game over. Where is in ext3/4 are we calling some function which could end up blocking on kjournald while we have the I/O queue plugged? That sounds suspicious and potentially wrong. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html