linux-kernel - Re: NFSv4: Give the lock stateid its own sequence queue

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:25:31 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFSv4: Give the lock stateid its own sequence queue

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Sharing the open sequence queue causes a deadlock when we try to take both
> a lock sequence id and and open sequence id.
> 
> This fixes the regression reported by Dimitri Puzin and Jeff Garzik:
> See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9712
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>

Tested-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>


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