Re: Possible dcache BUG

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:26:07AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Friday 06 August 2004 12:58, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> Now, Chris Shoemaker reported dentry problems on a intel CPU and
> >> said that wli had seen something too, but I'm wondering whether
> >> Chris and wli might have been seeing the knfsd/xfs-related dentry
> >> bug that I found yesterday. So I think the prefetch theory is still
> >> alive, but we should check with Chris. Chris?
> 
> I've not had issues around the dcache for quite some time, I think not
> since the 2.5.65 timeframe. IIRC maneesh and dipankar had some fixes
> that resolved all my issues not long afterward. So unfortunately I have
> nothing strictly dcache-related to report. Chris may have been
> referring to some potentially pathological NFS behavior I've seen for a
> long time centered around extended periods of knfsd unresponsiveness.
> 
> -- wli

I was referring to:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.2/0410.html

...doesn't look NFS-related to me.  OTOH, it does bear some resemblance
to some other oopses floating around.  Did you solve this one?

-chris

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