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Date:      Tue, 5 Apr 2005 20:50:00 -0500
From:      Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE - FURTHER UPDATE
Message-ID:  <20050405205000.A805@denninger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050405202504.A6216@denninger.net>; from Karl Denninger on Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:25:04PM -0500
References:  <20050329200841.A772@denninger.net> <20050329233843.L328@sasami.jurai.net> <20050329230830.A3222@denninger.net> <20050329234318.A3883@denninger.net> <20050330210830.A46956@denninger.net> <20050330230046.A68235@denninger.net> <20050331120100.P328@sasami.jurai.net> <20050331110608.A81295@denninger.net> <20050405202504.A6216@denninger.net>

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:25:04PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> 
> This patch appears to be "safe".
> 
> I have about 2 hours on the production machine right now post-rebuild (which
> had to complete first) with the added "callout_drain" in, have taken two DMA
> WRITE retries, and have not yet seen any evidence of destabilization.
> 
> This is good evidence but not proof - before I took out the original line
> the FIRST write retry would immediately cause the system to become unstable.

I have forced over a dozen errors (high rate I/O) and still no stability
problems.

Patch looks good.

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