From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: referrals Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 11:27:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20080509152750.GA325@fieldses.org> References: <20080509011918.GK12690@fieldses.org> <1210309839.8657.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Trond Myklebust , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Manoj Naik To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:41809 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752164AbYEIP14 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2008 11:27:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1210309839.8657.0.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:10:39PM -0700, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:19 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > An attempt to follow an nfsv4 referral is leading to a hang. I'm doing > > an "ls" on the absent directory. A network trace shows the server > > returning with a sane-looking response to the getattr of fs_locations. > > I've appended the part of the sysrq-t trace for "ls". Any ideas? > > > > --b. > > What kernel? It was a few unrelated nfsd and gss patches on top of e31a94ed371c70855eb30b77c490d6d85dd4da26, which is between 2.6.25 and 2.6.26-rc1 (but I think has all the nfs stuff that went into -rc1). Happy to retest with something different. --b.