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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: NFS maillist <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: RedHat Rawhide Kernels
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:27:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020808172729.J28223@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15698.57249.605357.32060@charged.uio.no>; from trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no on Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:16:17PM +0200

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:16:17PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Duh... My mistake I didn't read your mail clearly enough...
> 
> I know of 1 possible hang in that patchset (a hang which also affects
> the standard 2.4.19 kernel): The spinlock in xprt_write_space() needs
> to be converted to a bh-safe spinlock. The race should be very rare,
> but definitely exists (it's been fixed BTW in the newer patchset)...

Ah, interesting.  I'll put that into a test rpm for the people 
experiencing the problem to see if it helps.

> Do you have any details on the hangs in question that might help?

Basically, under heavy load several processes end up stuck in 
lock_page being called from generic_file_read.  The problem is 
very hard to reproduce (at least I can't on my local machines).

		-ben
-- 
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-08 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-08 19:21 RedHat Rawhide Kernels Jeremy Sanders
2002-08-08 19:33 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-08 20:16   ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-08 20:23     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-08 20:31       ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-08 20:57         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-08 21:16           ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-08 21:27             ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-08-08 21:35               ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-09  1:04                 ` Thomas Langås
2002-08-09  4:51                   ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-08 20:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-12 10:41 ` Jeremy Sanders

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