On Sat, 16 Jul 2016, Mark Vitale wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:39 PM, Chad William Seys <cws...@physics.wisc.edu> > wrote: > > I found the break point in when openafs starts having problems with git > > checkout on my test repo: > > > > First broken: 3.16.7-ckt25-1 (compiled 2016-03-06) > > Last working: 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 > > > > Here is a changelog in case someone knows what to hunt for in: > > http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/l/linux/linux_3.16.7-ckt25-2_changelog > > thank you, this was very helpful. It's almost certainly: > > - vfs: Make sendfile(2) killable even better > - vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2) > > which are backports from Linux 4.4. OpenAFS had to disable splice() support > to be able to tolerate these changes. You need OpenAFS 1.6.18 or higher to > obtain relief for this, and indeed you did report that 1.6.18 is working fine > for you at this kernel level. > > However, this does NOT explain your report of no problems with OpenAFS 1.6.17 > and 1.6.16.
Actually, it does -- debian's 1.6.17-2 contains: debian/patches/Linux-4.4-Do-not-use-splice.patch which is what made it into upstream openafs 1.6.18. -Ben _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
