On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:28:34PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:58:56AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > This is quite a hefty update for so late. It includes a slew of block > > timer related fixes (we moved to using block timers when the 2.6.28 > > merge window opened). The bad news is that I still don't think we have > > all the block timer related bugs caught and fixed. There's also a slew > > of zfcp (s390 driver) fixes and a few miscellaneous others (including > > another regression bugzilla fix, the hang in starved list processing). > > I'll give this a try. None of the 2.6.28-rcX versions I've tried have > lasted more than a few hours at best before panicing with a block layer > timeout. My test system uses the aic7xxx driver with a 2930U2 adapter. > I didn't report the regression relative to 2.6.27 because I figured > something this major was going to get caught without another "me too" > report that I was too busy to generate and provide the necessary > diagnostic and followup on anyway :-). 2.6.28-rc7 without the SCSI update panics as the prior -rcX kernels did. With the update applied, life is good (so far). I can at least type "sync" at the command prompt and get away with it :-). With a current uptime of less than 5 minutes, I need to let the patched -rc7 soak a bit. Otherwise, I'm willing to call it "good." -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did rct@xxxxxxxx | get all the bugs out." - Steve McGrew on /. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
