From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751227AbWAQHDw (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:03:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751238AbWAQHDw (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:03:52 -0500 Received: from 7ka-campus-gw.mipt.ru ([194.85.83.97]:30459 "EHLO 7ka-campus-gw.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227AbWAQHDv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:03:51 -0500 Message-ID: <43CC96C7.7030103@sw.ru> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:03:35 +0300 From: Kirill Korotaev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Olaf Hering , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Busy inodes after unmount, be more verbose in generic_shutdown_super References: <20060116223431.GA24841@suse.de> <43CC2AF8.4050802@sw.ru> <20060116232957.GA26342@suse.de> <20060116180529.45283133.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060116180529.45283133.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Olaf Hering 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