linux-kernel - Re: Kernel 2.6.30.4 XFS(..?) regression (happened again)

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Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:25:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:	Felix Blyakher <felixb@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.30.4 XFS(..?) regression (happened again)



On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> All your traces seem to have in common that you're block on locks hold
> by processed doing I/O.  Especially a lot of page locks which are
> controlled by the VM and not the filesystem.  Can you try with commit
> 8aa7e847d834ed937a9ad37a0f2ad5b8584c1ab0 from 2.6.31-rc applied, or
> better directly 2.6.3-rc6?
>
> I would be surprised if this is something inside XFS, but running with
> CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG never hurts.
>

Christoph,

Thanks, running with DEBUG and 2.6.31-rc6.

CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=y

So far the problem has not surfaced, but it normally takes 24-48 hours.

Justin.
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