XFS - issues with writes using sync

[Amit Sahrawat]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:08:21PM +0530, Amit Sahrawat wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I tried with the same test case - just removed 'sync' command from the
> > script(please check script below) to check the behaviour.
> ....
> > I really doubt about the stability of 2.6.35.9, it is not passing our
> basic
> > tests. Checking few more things, before deciding about the patches which
> got
> > introduced between 2.6.34 ~ 2.6.35.9(around 102).
>
> 2.6.35 is perfectly fine on x86, so I suspect that it is something
> ARM specific. Most likely it is related to the VIVT platform support
> changes, but you really need to bisect so we know exactly waht
> change has broken such basic functionality on your platform.
>
> >> yes, this is quite possible - last time, we found an issue like this on
MIPS(related with flushing).


> Note that the bug may not even be in XFS, so you really need to do a
> full bisect, not just of the changes in xfs in that time...
>
>> if other activities are not assigned in the mean time :), I will verify
the exact reason for this issue. I do have working and issue causing setups
- so will check with both and update.

Thanks,
Amit Sahrawat
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