Re: [PATCH 3.9-stable] NFSv4.1 Fix a pNFS session draining deadlock

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jun 05 2013 - 16:17:17 EST


On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 01:23:05AM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 09:23 +0900, Jonghwan Choi wrote:
> > This patch looks like it should be in the 3.9-stable tree, should we apply
> > it?
>
> It's a condition which appears to be extremely rare: so far, we've only
> seen it during extreme stress testing at NetApp. For that reason, and
> because it is NFSv4.1 only, I'm inclined to wait until we see real-world
> cases before making it a stable patch.

Thanks for letting us know, I'll not apply it unless you say we should
later on.

greg k-h
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