It appears that turning off statahead does indeed avoid the soft lockup bug.  
But this seems to me to be a workaround, and not a solution.

Is statahead not useful for performance gains?  I am not comfortable making my 
user's jobs waste more cpu time because I have to implement a workaround 
instead of a fix.

Is there one in the works?  Nasf - does your patch solve the bug, or does it 
just disable statahead by default?

Thanks,

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
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Sent: sabato, 18. settembre 2010 08:13
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU stuck for 10s! 
with lustre 1.8.4

No i have disabled the statahead cache to avoid the problem -----Messaggio 
originale-----
Da: "Robert Read" <[email protected]>
Data: Sat Sep 18 04:42:18 GMT 2010
A: "Peter Jones" <[email protected]>
CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Oggetto: Re: [Lustre-discuss] kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU stuck for 10s! 
with lustre 1.8.4

Hi Peter,

Perhaps the link got mangled by your mail client? (It does have some seemingly 
unusual characters for an URL.)  My interpretation of Gabriele's reply is that 
the problem occurred even with statahead disabled, so in that case this patch 
might be worth trying. 

robert




On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:18 , Peter Jones wrote:

> The URL does not work for me, but if it is a statahead issue then 
> surely turning statahead off would be a simple workaround to avoid 
> having to apply a patch.
> 
> Fan Yong wrote:
>>  On 9/14/10 8:55 PM, Gabriele Paciucci wrote:
>> 
>>> I have the same problem, I put the statahead_max to 0 !!!
>>> 
>> In fact, I have made a patch for statahead related issues (including 
>> this one) against lustre-1.8, which is in inspection.
>> http://review.whamcloud.com/#change,2
>> If possible, you can try such patch.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Nasf
>> 
>> 
>> 
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