Subject: Re: Bug#328135: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs reading process
	stuck in disk wait
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Horms <horms@debian.org>
Cc: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>, 328135@bugs.debian.org,
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:44:39 +0100
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to den 15.09.2005 Klokka 18:22 (+0900) skreiv Horms:
> I take it from your initial remarks that the use of sync_page()
> in the VSF has changed recently. And in any case, it would
> be worth testing 2.6.12 or 2.6.13 before investigating any further
> as in your oppinion the problem is not NFS related, but related
> to somthing that NFS coincidently triggers (but could just as
> easily triggered by anything else).

Right. What I'm saying is that NFS has no special hooks inside
lock_page(), so this is 100% generic VFS code.

Cheers,
  Trond

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