Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269260AbUIHRba (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:31:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269257AbUIHRat (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:30:49 -0400 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.88]:9156 "EHLO unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269259AbUIHRai (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:30:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:30:37 +0200 From: Jakob Oestergaard To: Greg Banks Cc: Anando Bhattacharya , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Major XFS problems... Message-ID: <20040908173037.GI390@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Oestergaard , Greg Banks , Anando Bhattacharya , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040908123524.GZ390@unthought.net> <322909db040908080456c9f291@mail.gmail.com> <20040908154434.GE390@unthought.net> <1094661418.19981.36.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094661418.19981.36.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1235 Lines: 37 On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:36:58AM +1000, Greg Banks wrote: > 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. > Ok - Anders (as@cohaesio.com) will hopefully get a test setup (similar to the big server) running tomorrow, and will then see if the system can be broken with these two patches applied. Are we right in assuming that no other patches should be necessary atop of 2.6.8.1 in order to get a stable XFS? (that we should not apply other XFS specific patches?) Thanks, -- / jakob - 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/