linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] NFS regression in 2.6.26?, "task blocked for more than 120 seconds"

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:43:23 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
To:	Max Kellermann <mk@...all.com>
Cc:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Coady <grant_lkml@...o.com.au>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Tom Tucker <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS regression in 2.6.26?, "task blocked for more than
	120 seconds"

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:51 +0200, Max Kellermann wrote:
> 
> On 2008/10/20 08:27, Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk> wrote:
> > The issue I see still occurs well before those changesets. I have
> > seen it with v2.6.25 but v2.6.24 survived for 7 days without issue
> > (my threshold for a good kernel is 7 days, hence bisecting is a bit
> > slow...).
> 
> Hello Ian,
> 
> it seems we're hunting down different bugs after all.  Too bad, I
> hoped I could have solved your problem, too.

Thanks anyway, I'll just keep on bisecting ;-)

>   Our machine has been
> running well over the weekend with the patch I posted; with faulty
> kernels, the problem would occur after a few minutes.
> 
-- 
Ian Campbell

BOFH excuse #400:

We are Microsoft.  What you are experiencing is not a problem; it is an undocumented feature.

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