On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:57:04AM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote:

> For background information, see PR/33631 as well as various posts to
> the mailing lists.
> 
> I've been having problems for quite a while now with frequent lfs
> deadlocks.  As of -current of ~one day ago, I built a kernel (i386)
> and got two deadlocks while using LFS within a few hours of each
> other.  After I applied the LFS part of the patch I sent in for this
> problem about two months ago, I've yet to have another deadlock.
> *fingers crossed*
> 
> Does anyone have any comments on whether or not this patch should be 
> applied:
> 
> <http://bahar.aydogan.net/~blair/diffs/lfs_vfsops.c_diff>

I checked this one in, thanks. I've been working on abstracting the inode
hash so that it's a function of genfs. Hopefully then we can eliminate a lot
of pasteware and fix the problem across the board. I'll send you the diffs
when I get a chance so you can have a look.

Cheers,
Andrew