From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932133Ab3FEURN (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 16:17:13 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35603 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932067Ab3FEURL (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 16:17:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:17:10 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Myklebust, Trond" Cc: Jonghwan Choi , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "Adamson, Andy" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.9-stable] NFSv4.1 Fix a pNFS session draining deadlock Message-ID: <20130605201710.GC13713@kroah.com> References: <000001ce5a70$7b9bd410$72d37c30$%choi@samsung.com> <1369617780.15984.9.camel@leira.trondhjem.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1369617780.15984.9.camel@leira.trondhjem.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 01:23:05AM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 09:23 +0900, Jonghwan Choi wrote: > > This patch looks like it should be in the 3.9-stable tree, should we apply > > it? > > It's a condition which appears to be extremely rare: so far, we've only > seen it during extreme stress testing at NetApp. For that reason, and > because it is NFSv4.1 only, I'm inclined to wait until we see real-world > cases before making it a stable patch. Thanks for letting us know, I'll not apply it unless you say we should later on. greg k-h