Re: NFS client not looking good under 2.1.118 SMP (Was: Re: NFS looking

Ove Ewerlid (Ove.Ewerlid@syscon.uu.se)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 01:23:12 +0200

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > 4) Linux crashes hard with no traces in the syslog and no message
> > to the console.
>
> Ok - your previous tests included 2.1.117-ac* and you said one seemed to fix
> the SMP crashes. I can't see why it should have but was that in fact the case
> ?
>

A deterministic (SMP-)oops in nfs_file_close was fixed in the
2.1.117-ac* series.
There is also a hard lockup. The probability of this lockup was lowered
by
the fix that removed the nfs_file_close oops. It was always possible to
trigger
the lockup by pounding enough on the NFS-client subsystem.

Stats for the netscape-folder-test:

2.1.117ac1 passes 2 out of 2 (but later crashes on a large cp -a)
2.1.118 crashes 2 out of 2

This crash has never occured under UP.

Ove

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