From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267403AbUHXKik (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:38:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267421AbUHXKik (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:38:40 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:36506 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267403AbUHXKii (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:38:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:38:24 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Bob Gilligan Cc: linux-iscsi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [linux-iscsi-devel] Crash running XFS over iSCSI volume Message-ID: <20040824103824.GB15616@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Bob Gilligan , linux-iscsi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <412A40D6.3070408@intransa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <412A40D6.3070408@intransa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: -4.901 () BAYES_00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.