Re: 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 (ext4 problem ?)

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 09:56 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:02:14 -0700
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 21:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: 
> > > 
> > > > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc1/2.6.19-rc1-mm1/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > - Added the ext4 filesystem.  Quick usage instructions:
> > > > >
> > > > >   - Grab updated e2fsprogs from
> > > > >     ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs-interim/
> > > > >   
> > 
> > ext4 did not survive my simple stress tests. 
> > 
> > I ran 4 copies of fsx on ext4dev filesystem (without extents) +
> > 4 copies of fsx on ext4dev (with extents). 
> > 
> > Machine hung after running for few hours. There are 4 fsx sigsegv
> > messages on the console and the last message on the console is
> > 
> > do_IRQ: 0.62 No irq handler for vector
> > 
> 
> Quite a few people are hitting that - it's related to Eric's recent
> IRQ/APIC-routing changes.
> 
> I don't know why that would cause fsx to get a sigsegv though.

I don't think they are related. Hopefully once we figure out IRQ
problem, we can try to track down fsx problems.

Thanks,
Badari