Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269072AbUIHQbP (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:31:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269045AbUIHQaq (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:30:46 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:48607 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268698AbUIHQae (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:30:34 -0400 Subject: Re: Major XFS problems... From: Greg Banks To: Jakob Oestergaard Cc: Anando Bhattacharya , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040908154434.GE390@unthought.net> References: <20040908123524.GZ390@unthought.net> <322909db040908080456c9f291@mail.gmail.com> <20040908154434.GE390@unthought.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Australian Software Group. Message-Id: <1094661418.19981.36.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 02:36:58 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 861 Lines: 27 On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 01:44, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > SMP systems on 2.6 have a problem with XFS+NFS. Knfsd threads in 2.6 are no longer serialised by the BKL, and the change has exposed a number of SMP issues in the dcache. Try the two patches at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108330112505555&w=2 and http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1722.48.23 (the latter is in recent Linus kernels). If you're still having problems after applying those patches, Nathan and I need to know. Greg. -- Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. I don't speak for SGI. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/