linux-kernel - Re: INFO: task reiserfs/0:1322 blocked for more than 120 seconds

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Message-ID: <87abf8ypic.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:00:59 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Donald <gdonald@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: INFO: task reiserfs/0:1322 blocked for more than 120 seconds

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
>
> ok. How about quadrupling the timeout, as per the patch below?
>
> more than 8 minutes uninterruptible wait, is that a reasonable limit?

There should be a way to disable them for NFS and other network
file systems at least. Having network issues is not that uncommon
and flooding the log with backtraces every time they happen
when a network fs is mounted is not very useful.

-Andi

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