On Monday February 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> > How repeatable is this? Is the server SMP?
>
> I've tested this on two UP Athlons and 2 SMP Pentium 3's and the same problem
> occurred. I have not tested it more than once on the same system (I left the
> NFS servers untouched after the reboot).
>
> The Athlon systems running NFS were 2.4.1-ac3 and the Pentiums were running
> 2.2.19-pre7. All computers exporting the FS had one directory mounted at least
> once.
>
> In one case, only 1 directory was mounted once and then unmounted before
> shutting off the NFS server. When I realized I forgot to copy a directory over,
> I went to restart NFS on the server and found out I was unable to. Probably
> irrelevant, but this had been after transferring 7 gigs of data over 100 Mbps.
>
> I still have the 'broken' server running, so if you would like me to run a
> command or two on it I can show you the results.
I don't think that there is much useful that I could look at, thanks.
>
> > The attached patch might fix it, so if you are having reproducable
> > problems, it might be worth applying this patch.
>
> I can try it tomorrow and see if it fixes the problem, but since this problem
> also occurred on a UP, using spin locks probably will not correct it. Perhaps
> it's something else.
On second thoughts, this doesn't need to be SMP related. I don't know
much about "bottom halves" but I gather that they get run after an
interrupt has been handled and interrupts have been re-enabled, but
before the original process is rescheduled. If this is the case, then
the "_bh" part of the "spin_lock_bh" (which does a local_bh_disable)
could be the bit that is important on a UP system.
NeilBrown
>
> > [patch snipped]
>
> -Byron
>
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