On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 14:37 -0500, J. K. Cliburn wrote: > Athanasius wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:02:20PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: > >> I've been using NFS here for years, lately there's something odd going on > >> since about a month or so. Previously reported last month: > >> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/951419?page=last > >> > >> Now with 2.6.27-rc3 on one of the client boxes I get a complete stall > >> at odd times when accessing the server's exported directory, cannot > >> see a pattern to it. Eventually recovers after a Ctrl-C. Nothing in > >> the server or client log files. Not easy to reproduce either. > > > > I wonder if this is what I've been seeing. I've been otherwise too > > busy to properly report it, thinking that *someone* else must also be > > seeing it and it's being worked on, else it's a subtle configuration > > problem my end. > > > > I first started seeing this with 2.6.26 on the client end, > > I see you're running the atl1 driver on your client. I'm chasing an > intermittent bug in that driver that seems to be affected by certain > offload parameters. Try disabling TSO and see if things improve. Was this ever resolved? We're seeing a similar hangup in a 2.6.27 kernel. Thanks Frank Filz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
