Re: xfs fails dbench in 2.6.18-rc1-mm1

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:26 -0700, Martin Bligh wrote:
>> Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>>> Martin Bligh wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:58, Martin Bligh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://test.kernel.org/abat/40891/debug/test.log.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Filesystem type for /mnt/tmp is xfs
>>>>>> write failed on handle 13786
>>>>>> 4 clients started
>>>>>> Child failed with status 1
>>>>>> write failed on handle 13786
>>>>>> write failed on handle 13786
>>>>>> write failed on handle 13786
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Works fine in -git4
>>>>>> All other fs's seemed to run OK.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Machine is a 4x Opteron.
> 
> Sorry !! its my screw up again :(
> Here is the patch to fix it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Badari
> 
> Fix a bug in __xfs_file_write() which is causing writes to fail
> with -EINVAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>

Ok, I've thrown this one + apkm's latest fix into the tester.  Only one 
result in so far, but that is our first good on that machine.

-apw