From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267232AbUJFNtV (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:49:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269173AbUJFNtU (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:49:20 -0400 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.88]:54442 "EHLO unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267232AbUJFNs6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:48:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:48:55 +0200 From: Jakob Oestergaard To: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: NFS+SMP+XFS problems, Take II Message-ID: <20041006134855.GV18307@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Oestergaard , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <20041006125931.GU18307@unthought.net> <20041006142610.A30867@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041006142610.A30867@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:26:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:59:31PM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > The dcache patch (originally from Neil Brown, adapted for 2.6.8.1 by me) > > has been included in the current 2.6.9 RC. It *seemed* that this patch > > solved the XFS+NFS+SMP problem completely, and that it would then be > > possible to finally run an NFS server with XFS on an SMP machine. > > > > Well, close, but not close enough. > > As I told in the thread it's not enough. I checked in two more XFS fixes, > they're all in 2.6.9-rc3. Thanks! I'll patch the kernel this evening, and we'll see if it can stay up then. I'll report back to the lists by the end of the week if the box doesn't hose itself sooner. -- / jakob