Re: xfs deadlock in stable kernel 3.0.4

Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-13T19:31:37Z

Am 13.09.2011 08:04, schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:
> Hi,
>
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 06:46:26PM +0200, Stefan Priebe wrote:
>>>> What kind of workload are you running? Also did the workload run fine
>>>> with an older kernel, and if yes which one?
>>>
>>> Mysql, Web, Mail, ftp ;-) yes it was with 2.6.32. I upgraded from
>>> that version.
>>
>> Just curious, is this the same system that also shows the freezes
>> reported to the scsi list? If I/Os don't get completed by lower layers
>> I can see how we get everything in XFS waiting on the log reservations,
>> given that we never get the log tail pushed.
>
> I just reported it to the scsi list as i didn't knew where the problems
> is. But then some people told be it must be a XFS problem.
>
> Some more informations:
> 1.) It's running with 2.6.32 and 2.6.38
> 2.) I can also write to another ext2 part on the same disk array(aacraid
> driver) while xfs stucks - so i think it must be an xfs problem
> 3.) I've also tried running 3.1-rc5 but then i'm seeing this error:
>
> ...
>

Any idea what we could try next or how to find the problem? At least
this is happening with different devices and writing to other partitions
is still working.

Greets