Re: [linux-iscsi-devel] Crash running XFS over iSCSI volume

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 05:39:55 EST


On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:09:10PM -0700, Bob Gilligan wrote:
> Hi Folks -- I'm running Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 and version 4.0.1.8 of the
> Linux initiator. I mounted an XFS filesystem over a 900 GB iSCSI
> volume, then ran "bonnie" with the args "-v 5 -o_direct". Within about
> 30 seconds, the kernel started spewing printks from bad_page(). The
> first few were:

Kown issues. XFS uses slab pages (as you noticed below), networking
code doesn't like that. DRBD has been tripping the same issue. We need
to come up with a consensus about what type of pages can be used in
block I/O requests. The drbd folks promised to get this discussed on
lkml but I haven't seen a discussion yet - so let's do it now.

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