linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] NFS regression in 2.6.26?, "task blocked for more than 120 seconds"

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Message-ID: <20090122164409.GB13129@fieldses.org>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:44:09 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
Cc:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, Max Kellermann <mk@...all.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gcosta@...hat.com,
	Grant Coady <grant_lkml@...o.com.au>,
	Tom Tucker <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] NFS regression in 2.6.26?, "task blocked for more
	than 120 seconds"

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:27:40AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 16:26 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > 
> > > > (Merged now, so testing mainline as of today should work too.)
> > > 
> > > The server isn't really a machine I want to test random kernels on,
> > is
> > > there some subset of those changesets which it would be useful for
> > me to
> > > pull back onto the 2.6.26 kernel I'm using to test? (I can most like
> > > manage the backporting myself).
> > > 
> > > These two look like the relevant ones to me but I'm not sure:
> > > 22945e4a1c7454c97f5d8aee1ef526c83fef3223 svc: Clean up deferred
> > requests on transport destruction
> > > 69b6ba3712b796a66595cfaf0a5ab4dfe1cf964a SUNRPC: Ensure the server
> > closes sockets in a timely fashion
> > > 
> > > I think 69b6 was in the set of three I tested previously and the
> > other
> > > two turned into 2294?
> > 
> > Yep, exactly.--b.
> 
> The client machine now has an uptime of ten days without error after
> these two patches were applied to the server.
> 
> Thanks everybody,

Very good, so upstream should be OK.  Thanks for the testing!

--b.
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