Re: Temporary NFS problem when rpciod is SIGKILLed

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 25 October 2004 17:41, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> mЕ den 25.10.2004 Klokka 17:02 (+0300) skreiv Denis Vlasenko:
> 
> > I am using NFS root. At shutdown, when I kill
> > all processes with killall5 -9, NFS temporarily
> > misbehaves. I narrowed it down to rpciod feeling
> > bad when signalled with SIGKILL:
> 
> That is a deliberate feature. It is useful when mountpoints hang etc.
> 
> Note however that the patches that convert rpciod to use a workqueue
> (they can be found in the latest -mm kernels) remove this feature.

These?

linux-2.6.8.1-49-rpc_workqueue.patch
linux-2.6.8.1-50-rpc_queue_lock.patch

I will test 'em, thanks!
--
vda

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