[OpenAFS] console messages: "all buffers locked"

[Rainer Toebbicke]

Simon Wilkinson schrieb:
> 

> 
> I've submitted gerrit 732 to address this part of your problem (minor 
> cosmetics, but hopefully
> it will make things easier for anyone encountering this in the future)
> 
>> (slabinfo shows e.g. 1579993 for afs_inode_cache. Is that big? About 
>> same size as dentry_cache.
>> My plan is to try add a traceback to afs_buffer.c, and eventually try 
>> with 1.4.8+security patch which we still run on a big scale here. Any 
>> other ideas?)
> 
> This suggests that something's locking, but not release buffers in the 
> directory handling code. Are the directories you're writing these files 
> into particularly large?
> 

Yes, there are plenty and during the stress test each one receives 10000 files.

What I forgot to mention was that during that test those zillion files are 
eventually removed. While unlinking the dentry_cache shrinks, whereas to my 
surprise the afs_inode_cache doesn't.

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