On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:22:20PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:33:50PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:15:53PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > > > > FWIW, this create/unlink load has been triggering reliable "Busy > > > inodes after unmount" errors that I've slowly been tracking down. > > > After I fixed the last problem in XFS late last week, I've > > > been getting a failure that i think is the unmount/prune_dcache > > > races that you and Neil have recently fixed. > > > > I just had all 8 filesystems come up with: > > > > May 25 15:55:18 budgie kernel: XFS unmount got error 16 > > May 25 15:55:18 budgie kernel: xfs_fs_put_super: vfsp/0xe00000b006339280 left dangling! > > May 25 15:55:18 budgie kernel: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of dm-9. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... ..... > > On the second test iteration. On 2.6.16, it takes about 10 iterations to get one > > filesystem to do this. I'll need to look into this one further. I'm going to > > reboot the machine and run some dbench tests (which typically don't trigger > > this problem) and then come back to this one with added debugging.... > > Is this with version 2 of your patch? That's with version 2 on -rc4-mm3. > Could you also try the -mm tree > and see if the problem goes away. We have a set of patches to address > exactly this problem. Well, the patches overlap and I thought that I had taken into account the fixes that were applied to the -mm tree. I'm rerunning on 2.6.16 with the s_umount locking fix so I know that it's not something else in -mm that is being tripped over.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner R&D Software Enginner SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html