I have reported here before on a NFS client hang that we see in multi-threaded iozone testing on various kernel and NFS versions. What looks like the same bug has been reported against RHEL here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672305 After applying the suggested fix from that bug report I'm getting a different hang, at least with Benny's pnfs-all-latest and NFS 4.1 (no pnfs). Does this ring a bell with anyone? INFO: task iozone:2666 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. iozone D ffff88024cdf1aa0 0 2666 1 0x00000080 ffff880246be7c50 0000000000000082 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff880246be6010 ffff880246be7fd8 00000000000136c0 ffff88024cdf16f0 ffff88024cdf1aa8 ffff88024cdf1aa0 00000000000136c0 00000000000136c0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8113978a>] ? lock_flocks+0x10/0x12 [<ffffffff8143dc37>] rwsem_down_failed_common+0xd3/0x105 [<ffffffff8143dc90>] rwsem_down_read_failed+0x12/0x14 [<ffffffff81209f54>] call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30 [<ffffffff8143d377>] ? down_read+0x32/0x36 [<ffffffffa03dbd20>] nfs4_proc_lock+0x224/0x342 [nfs] [<ffffffffa03c19af>] do_setlk+0x61/0xd5 [nfs] [<ffffffffa03c1c4a>] nfs_lock+0x170/0x17f [nfs] [<ffffffff8113af72>] vfs_lock_file+0x24/0x38 [<ffffffff8113b2b9>] fcntl_setlk+0x15e/0x2a6 [<ffffffff811056d7>] ? fsnotify_access+0x5d/0x65 [<ffffffff81112ad6>] sys_fcntl+0x30e/0x4af [<ffffffff8143e890>] ? do_device_not_available+0x9/0xb [<ffffffff8100aa52>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -- 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