  We present new results from our ongoing study of flavor singlet pseudoscalar
mesons in QCD. Our approach is based on (a) performing truncated eigenmode
expansions for the hairpin diagram and (b) incorporating the ground state
contribution for the connected meson propagator. First, we explain how the
computations can be substantially improved by even-odd preconditioning. We
extend previous results on early mass plateauing in the eta' channel of
two-flavor full QCD with degenerate sea and valence quarks to the partially
quenched situation. We find that early mass plateau formation persists in the
partially quenched situation.
