From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753205Ab0DSSyt (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:54:49 -0400 Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:59515 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752451Ab0DSSys (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:54:48 -0400 To: Trond Myklebust Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.34rc4 NFS writeback regression (bisected): client often fails to delete things it just created References: <87tyr9dfvv.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271618484.8049.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87vdboa7e0.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271620750.8049.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87mxx0a5pc.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271621624.8049.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87iq7oa2o8.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <1271682635.13653.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Nix Emacs: more than just a Lisp interpreter, a text editor as well! Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:54:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1271682635.13653.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Trond Myklebust's message of "Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:10:35 -0400") Message-ID: <87aasz9ssu.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-DCC-Misty-Metrics: spindle 1170; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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...)