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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "dean gaudet" <dean@arctic.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:15:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080115231504.4df1b739.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c20801152309g28493cecx57efa8a8bba2fd21@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:09:31 -0700 "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:

> > heheh.
> >
> > it's really easy to reproduce the hang without the patch -- i could
> > hang the box in under 20 min on 2.6.22+ w/XFS and raid5 on 7x750GB.
> > i'll try with ext3... Dan's experiences suggest it won't happen with ext3
> > (or is even more rare), which would explain why this has is overall a
> > rare problem.
> >
> 
> Hmmm... how rare?
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119461747005776&w=2
> 
> There is nothing specific that prevents other filesystems from hitting
> it, perhaps XFS is just better at submitting large i/o's.  -stable
> should get some kind of treatment.  I'll take altered performance over
> a hung system.

We can always target 2.6.25-rc1 then 2.6.24.1 if Neil is still feeling
wimpy.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-14  1:45 [PATCH 000 of 6] md: various fixes for md NeilBrown
2008-01-14  1:45 ` [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5 NeilBrown
2008-01-16  5:01   ` dean gaudet
2008-01-16  5:54     ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-16  6:13       ` dean gaudet
2008-01-16  7:09         ` Dan Williams
2008-01-16  7:15           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-01-16 21:54             ` Neil Brown
2008-01-14  1:45 ` [PATCH 002 of 6] md: Fix use-after-free bug when dropping an rdev from an md array NeilBrown
2008-01-14  2:04   ` Al Viro
2008-01-14  3:21     ` Neil Brown
2008-01-14  3:43       ` Al Viro
2008-01-14  4:48         ` Neil Brown
2008-01-14  6:28           ` Neil Brown
2008-01-14 12:59             ` Al Viro
2008-01-14 13:56               ` Al Viro
2008-01-14  1:45 ` [PATCH 003 of 6] md: Change a few 'int' to 'size_t' in md NeilBrown
2008-01-14  1:45 ` [PATCH 004 of 6] md: Change INTERATE_MDDEV to for_each_mddev NeilBrown
2008-01-14  1:45 ` [PATCH 005 of 6] md: Change ITERATE_RDEV to rdev_for_each NeilBrown
2008-01-14  1:45 ` [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Change ITERATE_RDEV_GENERIC to rdev_for_each_list, and remove ITERATE_RDEV_PENDING NeilBrown

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