Peter Watkins-3 wrote: > > Does your kernel have the effect of > > 0bf6a5bd4b55b466964ead6fa566d8f346a828ee xfs: convert the xfsaild > thread to a workqueue > This patch is present in the Ubuntu Precise 3.2 kernel, and I have been able to reproduce the failure with this patch applied. Peter Watkins-3 wrote: > > c7eead1e118fb7e34ee8f5063c3c090c054c3820 xfs: revert to using a > kthread for AIL pushing > I see this patch is 0030807c66f058230bcb20d2573bcaf28852e804 upstream, and this patch is also present in the 3.2 Precise kernel that was tested and exhibited the failure. Peter Watkins-3 wrote: > > In particular, is this code in xfs_trans_ail_push: > > smp_wmb(); > xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn(ailp, &ailp->xa_target, &threshold_lsn); > smp_wmb(); > In fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c:xfs_ail_push(): /* * Ensure that the new target is noticed in push code before it clears * the XFS_AIL_PUSHING_BIT. */ smp_wmb(); xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn(ailp, &ailp->xa_target, &threshold_lsn); smp_wmb(); _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Still-seeing-hangs-in-xlog_grant_log_space-tp33732886p33964752.html Sent from the Xfs - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs