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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfs: desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit.
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:44:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176849870.6455.3.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hcrfaqam.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp>

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 02:01 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got the following message today. Probably, it happened on heavy load.
> 
> NFS: desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit.
> NFS: desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit.
> NFS: desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit.
> NFS: desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit.
> NFS: desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit.
> NFS: desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit.
> NFS: desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit.
> [...]
> 
> Any idea? Thanks.

It is a known issue that is due to nfs_writepage() 'stealing' requests
from the commit list. The most dangerous consequence is that it screws
up the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS page accounting...

I'm working on a fix, and will post it to lkml as soon as I'm happy with
tests.

Cheers
  Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704160904560.5473@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]     ` <1176740307.6761.56.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
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2007-04-17 17:01             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2007-04-17 22:44               ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2007-04-18  1:19               ` [PATCH 0/4] 2.6.21-rc7 NFS writes: fix a series of issues Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18  1:29                 ` [PATCH 1/4] NFS: clean up the unstable write code Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18  1:29                 ` [PATCH 2/4] NFS: Don't clear PG_writeback until after we've processed unstable writes Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18  1:29                 ` [PATCH 3/4] NFS: Fix the 'desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit' error Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18  1:29                 ` [PATCH 4/4] NFS: Fix race in nfs_set_page_dirty Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18  2:58                 ` [PATCH 0/4] 2.6.21-rc7 NFS writes: fix a series of issues Andrew Morton
2007-04-18  3:06                   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18  3:30                     ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-18  3:54                       ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18  4:07                         ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-18  4:13                           ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-18  4:30                             ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-18  5:14                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-18  5:26                                 ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-18  5:37                                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-18 12:38                                   ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-18 13:15                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18 13:42                                       ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-18 14:11                                         ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18 14:17                                           ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-18 14:19                                             ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-19  1:52                                           ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-19  2:45                                             ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-19  4:38                                               ` Success! Was: " Florin Iucha
2007-04-19 15:12                                               ` Chuck Lever
2007-04-19 15:17                                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-19 15:50                                                   ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-19 16:09                                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-19 19:58                                                       ` Failure! " Florin Iucha
2007-04-19 21:30                                                         ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-19 21:49                                                           ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-20 13:30                                                             ` Success! Was: " Florin Iucha
2007-04-20 13:37                                                               ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-20 13:51                                                                 ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-18 14:14                                         ` Florin Iucha
2007-04-29 19:41                                   ` Rogier Wolff
2007-04-29 20:09                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-18 11:38                           ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-18  9:54                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2007-04-18  8:19                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-18 16:41                   ` Peter Zijlstra

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