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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.30.4 XFS(..?) regression (& with/2.6.31-rc6)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:45:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090823224504.GA19942@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908221659030.23463@p34.internal.lan>

Ok, let's see where errors could happen then.

There are four theoretical possibilities:

 (a) XFS
 (b) loop driver
 (c) crypto loop code
 (d) block layer

Or combinations thereof.

I would take (a) and (d) as more unlikely as they tend to get used much
more and I would have heard more bug reports already.

The cryptoloop code hasn't changed at all since 2.6.29.

The loop code howver has a very interesting commit just after 2.6.39:

commit 68db1961bbf4e16c220ccec4a780e966bc1fece3
Author: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Date:   Tue Mar 24 12:29:54 2009 +0100

    loop: support barrier writes

Can you try reverting this one (it cleanly reverse-applies against
2.6.30 and current mainline) and see if that makes a difference?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-23 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-08  8:39 Kernel 2.6.30.4 XFS(..?) regression Justin Piszcz
2009-08-08 19:31 ` Felix Blyakher
2009-08-09 10:09   ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-11 10:58     ` Kernel 2.6.30.4 XFS(..?) regression (happened again) Justin Piszcz
2009-08-16  2:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-17 14:25         ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-22 10:27           ` Kernel 2.6.30.4 XFS(..?) regression (& with/2.6.31-rc6) Justin Piszcz
2009-08-22 14:25             ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-22 14:45               ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-22 20:15                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-22 20:46                   ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-22 20:55                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-22 21:01                       ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-23 22:45                         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-08-24 11:04                           ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-26 13:50                             ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-26 18:02                               ` Kernel 2.6.30.4 loop(..?) " Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-26 21:19                                 ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-26 21:27                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-26 21:31                                     ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-28 11:23                                       ` Justin Piszcz
2009-08-28 16:55                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 11:45                                         ` Justin Piszcz

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