linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.34rc4 NFS writeback regression (bisected): client often fails to delete things it just created

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Message-ID: <87aasz9ssu.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:54:41 +0100
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.34rc4 NFS writeback regression (bisected): client often fails to delete things it just created

On 19 Apr 2010, Trond Myklebust verbalised:
> Hmm... Could you please try reverting commit
> 2c61be0a9478258f77b66208a0c4b1f5f8161c3c (NFS: Ensure that the WRITE and
> COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptible). I wonder if that
> introduced a new race...

That seems to have fixed it.

(This must be a heck of a wide race, or I'm very unlucky :) I hit it
every single time, even if the machine is under heavy load...)
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