From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Busy inodes after unmount, be more verbose in generic_shutdown_super
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:03:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43CC96C7.7030103@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060116180529.45283133.akpm@osdl.org>
> Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 17, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>>
>>> Olaf, can you please check if my patch for busy inodes from -mm tree
>>> helps you?
>> I cant reprpoduce it at will, thats the thing. It likely happens with NFS
>> mounts. agruen@suse.de did some work recently. But I remember even with
>> these changes (for a 2.6.13), the busy inodes did not disappear.
>>
>> Merging your patch into our cvs will give it more testing, I will do
>> that tomorrow if noone disagrees.
>>
>
> The patch is certainly safe and stable. But it's so huge and complex and
> ugly that I was hoping that a better fix would turn up. The bug itself
> takes quite some ingenuity to hit.
We have another idea how to reimplement it via refcounters instead of
lists. But I'm not sure when this will happen, due to lack of time :(
Kirill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-17 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-16 22:34 [PATCH] Busy inodes after unmount, be more verbose in generic_shutdown_super Olaf Hering
2006-01-16 23:23 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-16 23:29 ` Olaf Hering
2006-01-17 2:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-17 7:03 ` Kirill Korotaev [this message]
2006-01-18 22:49 ` Jan Blunck
2006-01-18 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19 10:08 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-19 9:52 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-19 10:04 ` Jan Blunck
2006-01-19 10:26 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-20 19:06 ` Jan Blunck
2006-01-23 8:14 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-30 11:54 ` Jan Blunck
2006-01-30 14:05 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-30 14:21 ` Jan Blunck
2006-01-30 14:34 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-03-02 6:57 Neil Brown
2006-03-02 10:48 ` Jan Blunck
2006-03-03 11:42 ` Jan Blunck
2006-03-06 6:09 ` Neil Brown
2006-03-06 7:32 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-07 1:58 ` Neil Brown
2006-03-07 2:49 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-07 6:22 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-03-07 6:16 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-03-07 7:03 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-07 7:21 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-03-07 11:05 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-08 0:29 ` Neil Brown
2006-03-08 2:17 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-08 2:39 ` Neil Brown
2006-03-08 3:05 ` Balbir Singh
2006-03-08 11:01 ` Jan Blunck
2006-03-06 11:56 ` Jan Blunck
2006-03-07 2:15 ` Neil Brown
2006-03-06 11:56 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-03-07 2:01 ` Neil Brown
2006-03-07 6:20 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-03-07 23:20 ` Neil Brown
2006-03-09 12:03 ` Kirill Korotaev
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