Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:20:18 +0400 | From | Ivan Kokshaysky <> | Subject | Re: status of Linux on Alpha? |
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:08:30PM +0200, Marc Giger wrote: > I wonder why it happens only with the XFS code. What I saw > rw_sem is used all over the place in the kernel.
Dru says it happens with ext3 as well. XFS folks used their own locking code (which hasn't suffered from that bug) until 2.6.4, that's why you noticed the difference... In either case, you need _really_ heavy write IO activity to trigger the bug.
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