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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: INFO: task reiserfs/0:1322 blocked for more than 120 seconds
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:00:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abf8ypic.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080820091918.GB23865@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:19:18 +0200")

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
> ok. How about quadrupling the timeout, as per the patch below?
>
> more than 8 minutes uninterruptible wait, is that a reasonable limit?

There should be a way to disable them for NFS and other network
file systems at least. Having network issues is not that uncommon
and flooding the log with backtraces every time they happen
when a network fs is mounted is not very useful.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-20 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-17  4:36 INFO: task reiserfs/0:1322 blocked for more than 120 seconds Greg Donald
2008-08-20  6:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-20  9:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-20 10:00     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-20  9:59   ` Andi Kleen

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