On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:30 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:06:05PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > I've split the issues introduced by the 2.6.21-rcX write code up into 4 > > > > subproblems. > > > > > > > > The first patch is just a cleanup in order to ease review. > > > > > > > > Patch number 2 ensures that we never release the PG_writeback flag until > > > > _after_ we've either discarded the unstable request altogether, or put > > > > it > > > > on the nfs_inode's commit or dirty lists. > > > > > > > > Patch number 3 fixes the 'desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit' error. > > > > It > > > > uses the PG_NEED_COMMIT flag as an indicator for whether or not the > > > > request > > > > may be redirtied. > > > > > > > > Patch number 4 protects the NFS '.set_page_dirty' address_space > > > > operation > > > > against races with nfs_inode_add_request. > > > > > > For 2.6.21, yes? > > > > Right. A couple of nasty regressions have been sighted. This series > > attempts to deal with them all. > > The good news is that the Gnome session log-in progresses to the point > where both top and bottom bars are painted (gray) and the bottom bar > is populated with icons (2.6.21-rc7 vanilla stops after displaying the > splash). The bad news is that it stops there. > > Big-copy fails as well, after 2.5G transferred. > > The process traces are at: > > http://iucha.net/nfs/21-rc7-nfs1/gnome-session > http://iucha.net/nfs/21-rc7-nfs1/big-copy > > Regards, > florin
Could you tell us a bit more about what happens when these hangs occur? Does the networking stop too, or just NFS? How about CIFS? Cheers Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
