On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:51:42AM -0400, Robin Humble wrote: >On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:04:27PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: >>On May 21, 2008 21:05 +0200, Jakob Goldbach wrote: >>> I'm running 1.6.4.3 patchless as well against an 2.6.18 vanilla kernel. >>> Or at least that is what I thought. OpenVz patch effectively makes the >>> kernel a 2.6.18++ kernel because they add features from newer kernels in >>> their maintained 2.6.18 based kernel. >>> >>> So the lockup in __d_lookup may just relate to newer patchless clients. >>> >>> I got a debug patch from the OpenVz community which indicate dcache >>> chain corruption in a lustre code path. >> >>Do you have the fixes for the statahead patches, disable statahead via >>"echo 0 > /proc/fs/lustre/llite/*/statahead_max", or can you try out the >>v1_6_5_RC4 tag from CVS (which also contains those patches)? > >all of our __d_lookup soft lockups have been when running with 0 in >/proc/fs/lustre/llite/*/statahead_max > >I'll try v1_6_5_RC4 now - should be fun :-)
unfortunately patched v1_6_5_RC4 doesn't appear to be workable on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 kernels. see the other thread. cheers, robin _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
