linux-kernel - Re: heavy nfs[4]] causes fs badness Was: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

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Message-ID: <20070115154649.GE6053@iucha.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:46:49 -0600
From:	florin@...ha.net (Florin Iucha)
To:	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Subject: Re: heavy nfs[4]] causes fs badness Was: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:11:13PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Florin Iucha <florin@...ha.net> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Based on this info, I think we can rule out any USB.  I will try
> > testing with NFS3 to see if the problem persists.  Unfortunately there
> > is no oops or anything in "dmesg".
> 
> Take a look at bz #7796, a NFS bug + fix. But my feelin is that this is
> older.

The reported had and oops?  Luxury!  I get nothing ;)

I am testing again, this time on 2.6.20-rc5 compiled with extra debug
and I got a couple dozens of:

   "eth0: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq."

in the kernel log.

florin

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