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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xfs: Assertion failed in xfs_ag_resv_init()
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 18:52:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190502165244.GB14995@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190502152736.GW2780@tuebingen.mpg.de>

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 05:27:36PM +0200, Andre Noll wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 16:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote
> > Ok, then how about we hold off on this patch for 4.9.y then.  "no one"
> > should be using 4.9.y in a "server system" anymore, unless you happen to
> > have an enterprise kernel based on it.  So we should be fine as the
> > users of the older kernels don't run xfs.
> 
> Well, we do run xfs on top of bcache on vanilla 4.9 kernels on a few
> dozen production servers here. Mainly because we ran into all sorts
> of issues with newer kernels (not necessary related to xfs). 4.9,
> OTOH, appears to be rock solid for our workload.

Great, but what is wrong with 4.14.y or better yet, 4.19.y?  Do those
also work for your workload?  If not, we should fix that, and soon :)

I would _STRONGLY_ recommend moving of of 4.9 on any non-SoC-based
system at this point in time, there should not be any reason to stick
with it, unless you are paying a company to provide support for it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-30 12:14 xfs: Assertion failed in xfs_ag_resv_init() Andre Noll
2019-04-30 15:11 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-04-30 16:25   ` Andre Noll
2019-04-30 17:40     ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-04-30 19:05       ` Andre Noll
2019-04-30 19:18         ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-04-30 21:07           ` Andre Noll
2019-05-01 15:36             ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-05-01 16:59               ` Andre Noll
2019-05-01 17:15                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-01 17:51                   ` Andre Noll
2019-05-01 19:28                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-05-01 22:11                       ` Dave Chinner
2019-05-02 11:44                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-02 11:45                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-02 13:20                           ` Sasha Levin
2019-05-02 14:10                             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-02 15:27                               ` Andre Noll
2019-05-02 16:52                                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-05-02 17:45                                   ` Andre Noll
2019-05-02 17:55                                     ` Sasha Levin
2019-05-02 12:34                         ` Sasha Levin
2019-05-01 17:00               ` Andre Noll

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