Re: status of Linux on Alpha?

[Marc Giger <gigerstyle@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:20:18 +0400
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:08:30PM +0200, Marc Giger wrote:
> > I wonder why it happens only with the XFS code. What I saw
> > rw_sem is used all over the place in the kernel.
> 
> Dru says it happens with ext3 as well. XFS folks used their own
> locking code (which hasn't suffered from that bug) until 2.6.4,
> that's why you noticed the difference...

Yes, as I saw that the patch uses the semaphore code in "arch" I was
not sure any longer if it is really a XFS related bug.

> In either case, you need _really_ heavy write IO activity to
> trigger the bug.

I noticed that. The best way to trigger it was "make -j20 vmlinux"
so that the pdflushd comes strongly into action.

Perhaps Dru can show me his "easy way" to reproduce the problem so that
I can test it more easily.

Thanks again

Marc