BUG: soft lockup - is this XFS problem?

Peter Klotz peter.klotz at aon.at
Mon Jan 5 10:21:24 CST 2009


Nick Piggin wrote:
> I believe this patch should solve it. Please test and confirm before
> I send it upstream.


My test successfully completed two times, writing a 900GB file in each run.
I used a patched 2.6.27.10 x86_64 kernel.

On an unpatched system this test usually fails before reaching 100GB.

Thank you for fixing this issue that quick.

Regards, Peter.




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