Comment #571 at least indicates that the problems remain, and are unrelated to the CPU scheduler. So describing all this as "fixed" seems a tad optimistic.
That being said, this bugzilla report clearly isn't getting the job done. I suggest that people who are still seeing writeback-related problems should report them via email. Suitable recipients are
And please, the thing to spend time on is to work out how to enable kernel developers to locally reproduce the problem. If we can do this, we'll fix it.
Comment #571 at least indicates that the problems remain, and are unrelated to the CPU scheduler. So describing all this as "fixed" seems a tad optimistic.
That being said, this bugzilla report clearly isn't getting the job done. I suggest that people who are still seeing writeback-related problems should report them via email. Suitable recipients are
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Wu Fengguang <email address hidden>
Andrew Morton <email address hidden>
And please, the thing to spend time on is to work out how to enable kernel developers to locally reproduce the problem. If we can do this, we'll fix it.