From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:00:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:00:36 -0400 Received: from mons.uio.no ([129.240.130.14]:10190 "EHLO mons.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:00:22 -0400 To: "Alex Kerkhove" Cc: Subject: Re: x86 SMP and RPC/NFS problems In-Reply-To: <1C48875BDE7ED0469485A5FD49925C4AF01265@zmx.staff.zeelandnet.nl> From: Trond Myklebust Date: 09 Aug 2001 14:00:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Alex Kerkhove"'s message of "Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:09:21 +0200" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " == Alex Kerkhove writes: > So my (blunt?) conclusion is that there must be some serious > problems with RPC/NFS (I guess RPC) and 2.4 SMP kernels! (and > lots of processes doing NFS stuff) > Anyone any thoughts on this? My kernel hacking knowledge is > limited, but I'm willing to test patches :) Could you try out the patch http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.3/linux-2.4.3-rpc_smpfixes.dif and see if it changes things? The latter straightens out a number of iffy locking issues in the net/sunrpc/xprt.c Most of it will only hit you if you're doing NFS over TCP though... Cheers, Trond