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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:01:05 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MD(4)/vnode hangs resolved (?)
Message-ID:  <20040310220105.GB93302@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20040310163013.GI90219@ip.net.ua>
References:  <34954.1078861189@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040310163013.GI90219@ip.net.ua>

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:39:49PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >=20
> > Those of you who have experienced that md(4) backed by vnodes hang your
> > systems, please try this patch:
> >=20
> > 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/md.patch
> >=20
> [...]
> > This solves the case where the system get stuck in "wdrain" because
> > a md(4)/vnode device is relatively large compared to the buffer cache.
> >=20
> I still have that script that causes the lockup.  When I get back
> home (should happen in less than an hour), I will give it a shot
> and let you know.  Thanks for tracking it down, "make release" on
> IA-64 will be grateful too!  ;)
>=20
Hmm.  I tried to reproduce the deadlock today on my fresh 5.2-CURRENT
laptop without your patch, using that script from "make release", but
to no avail.  Still, I hope it fixes the issue.  Thanks again for
looking into it!


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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