Re: [linux-iscsi-devel] Crash running XFS over iSCSI volume

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:09:10PM -0700, Bob Gilligan wrote:
> Hi Folks -- I'm running Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 and version 4.0.1.8 of the 
> Linux initiator.  I mounted an XFS filesystem over a 900 GB iSCSI 
> volume, then ran "bonnie" with the args "-v 5 -o_direct".   Within about 
> 30 seconds, the kernel started spewing printks from bad_page().  The 
> first few were:

Kown issues.  XFS uses slab pages (as you noticed below), networking
code doesn't like that.  DRBD has been tripping the same issue.  We need
to come up with a consensus about what type of pages can be used in
block I/O requests.  The drbd folks promised to get this discussed on
lkml but I haven't seen a discussion yet - so let's do it now.