On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:19:33AM -0500, Laurence Oberman wrote: > Hello > > I have a customer seeing multiple tasks blocked in xlog_grant_log_space > This lands up hitting the hungtask timer for pdflush. > > I have seen on the list that this issue is still out there. > I also don't see outstanding I/O requests on the XFS file system that experienced this block. > > The last hung_task timeout was on dm-9 > ffff81011c78c080 ffff81081a43bc00 xfs /dev/vgautocomp/lv_autocomp /bb/autocomp > > crash> gendisk ffff810814d24400 | grep in_flight > in_flight = 0, > > So just wondering if I am hitting an existing bug or if its a new one. > > This is an older 2.6.18 kernel There's been lots of problems fixed in this area in the past seven years. Your best bet is to upgrade to a more recent 3.x based kernel where the known issues in this area have been resolved. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs