Branch HEAD

b=13181
i=alex
i=nikita

Don't take the BKL in fsfilt_ext3_setattr() for 2.6 kernels.
It causes scheduling issues when removing large files.

diff --git a/lustre/ChangeLog b/lustre/ChangeLog
index e1d4154..db15c8a 100644 (file)
--- a/lustre/ChangeLog
+++ b/lustre/ChangeLog
@@ -249,6 +249,14 @@ Bugzilla   : 2369
 Description: use i_size_read and i_size_write in 2.6 port
 Details    : replace inode->i_size access with i_size_read/write()
 
+Severity   : normal
+Frequency  : when removing large files
+Bugzilla   : 13181
+Description: scheduling issue during removal of large Lustre files
+Details    : Don't take the BKL in fsfilt_ext3_setattr() for 2.6 kernels.
+            It causes scheduling issues when removing large files (17TB in the
+            present case).
+
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 2007-08-10         Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>

diff --git a/lustre/lvfs/fsfilt_ext3.c b/lustre/lvfs/fsfilt_ext3.c
index 6164a09..cef899b 100644 (file)
--- a/lustre/lvfs/fsfilt_ext3.c
+++ b/lustre/lvfs/fsfilt_ext3.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static int fsfilt_ext3_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, void *handle,
         struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
         int rc = 0;
 
-        lock_kernel();
+        lock_24kernel();
 
         /* Avoid marking the inode dirty on the superblock list unnecessarily.
          * We are already writing the inode to disk as part of this
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ static int fsfilt_ext3_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, void *handle,
         }
 
  out:
-        unlock_kernel();
+        unlock_24kernel();
         RETURN(rc);
 }