Re: [PATCH 00/19] Fix filesystem freezing deadlocks

2012-03-11 Thread Kamal Mostafa
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 17:00 +0100, Jan Kara wrote: Hallelujah, after a couple of weeks and several rewrites, here comes the third iteration of my patches to improve filesystem freezing. [...] We've been testing this patch set at Canonical on the multipath failover SAN configuration where

[PATCH 00/19] Fix filesystem freezing deadlocks

2012-03-05 Thread Jan Kara
Hallelujah, after a couple of weeks and several rewrites, here comes the third iteration of my patches to improve filesystem freezing. Filesystem freezing is currently racy and thus we can end up with dirty data on frozen filesystem (see changelog patch 06 for detailed race description).