Bug 10961

Summary: 2.6.26-rc: nfsd hangs for a few sec
Product: Memory Management Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component: OtherAssignee: Andrew Morton (akpm)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: clameter
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.26-rc Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 10492    

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-06-22 11:26:17 UTC 
Subject    : 2.6.26-rc: nfsd hangs for a few sec
Submitter  : "Alexander Beregalov" <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Date       : 2008-06-21 12:57
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121405308328004&w=4
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121412880115289&w=4
Handled-By : Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Handled-By : Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Handled-By : Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.25.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-06-22 11:28:15 UTC 
Reportedly caused by:

commit 54a6eb5c4765aa573a030ceeba2c14e3d2ea5706
Author: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Date:   Mon Apr 28 02:12:16 2008 -0700

   mm: use two zonelist that are filtered by GFP mask
Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-07-02 09:26:48 UTC 
References : http://marc.info/?t=121416305600004&r=1&w=4