Re: 2.4.18pre3+patches stalls machine under heavy NFS load

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
14 Jan 2002 19:28:10 +0100

>>>>> " " == Stephan Eisvogel <eisvogel-lkml@hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> Hello, first post.

> Summary: Experiencing machine stalls with 2.4.18pre3 with huge
> cache when bonnie is working on mounted NFS over Fast Ethernet.

Yes. I didn't realize that sync_page() gets called with
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE set. When I added in a preemption point in
__rpc_execute() it was causing the hang.

Fixed now...

Cheers,
Trond
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