Re: [PATCH 0/3] NFS regression in 2.6.26?, "task blocked for more than 120 seconds"

J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-22T16:44:16Z

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:27:40AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 16:26 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > > > (Merged now, so testing mainline as of today should work too.)
> > >
> > > The server isn't really a machine I want to test random kernels on,
> > is
> > > there some subset of those changesets which it would be useful for
> > me to
> > > pull back onto the 2.6.26 kernel I'm using to test? (I can most like
> > > manage the backporting myself).
> > >
> > > These two look like the relevant ones to me but I'm not sure:
> > > 22945e4a1c7454c97f5d8aee1ef526c83fef3223 svc: Clean up deferred
> > requests on transport destruction
> > > 69b6ba3712b796a66595cfaf0a5ab4dfe1cf964a SUNRPC: Ensure the server
> > closes sockets in a timely fashion
> > >
> > > I think 69b6 was in the set of three I tested previously and the
> > other
> > > two turned into 2294?
> >
> > Yep, exactly.--b.
>
> The client machine now has an uptime of ten days without error after
> these two patches were applied to the server.
>
> Thanks everybody,

Very good, so upstream should be OK. Thanks for the testing!

--b.