From: Nix Subject: Re: 2.6.34rc4 NFS writeback regression (bisected): client often fails to delete things it just created Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:54:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87aasz9ssu.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> References: <87tyr9dfvv.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271618484.8049.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87vdboa7e0.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271620750.8049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87mxx0a5pc.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271621624.8049.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87iq7oa2o8.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271682635.13653.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:59515 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752451Ab0DSSys (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:54:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1271682635.13653.40.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org> (Trond Myklebust's message of "Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:10:35 -0400") Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 19 Apr 2010, Trond Myklebust verbalised: > Hmm... Could you please try reverting commit > 2c61be0a9478258f77b66208a0c4b1f5f8161c3c (NFS: Ensure that the WRITE and > COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptible). I wonder if that > introduced a new race... That seems to have fixed it. (This must be a heck of a wide race, or I'm very unlucky :) I hit it every single time, even if the machine is under heavy load...)