On Jul 16, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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. Ahh. But what about 1.6.16? --mark _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
