AAC vs AMR vs getblk [Re: Processes blocked on getblk or ufs]

[Robin P. Blanchard]

> I'm finally catching up on this thread after a busy couple of 
> weeks where I wasn't reading much list email.  There seems to 
> be two problem areas in the thread, AAC and AMR.  For the AAC 
> problems, I've put a work-around in place until I find the 
> root cause.  The work-around appears to work well; I can no 
> longer reproduce the problem where I could eadily reproduce 
> it before, at the cost of reducing the command pool from 512 
> to 504.  Not a big hit overall, and I'll hopefully find the 
> real fix this weekend.
> 
> Since I can't always read list email in detail, please please 
> please email me directly if you have problems that might be 
> related to aac. You'll have a much higher chance of catching 
> my attention if you do that.
> 
> For AMR, it looks like there is indeed a real problem, but 
> the driver is basically without a maintainer at this point.  
> I don't have the time right now to learn it in enough detail 
> to be useful.

Thanks for the time and effort put into this! My dual 2650 is no longer
exhibiting any getblk issues. I would definitely encourage this being
back-ported to 5.2-rel or 5.2.1-rel.

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Robin P. Blanchard
Systems Integration Specialist
Georgia Center for Continuing Education
fon: 706.542.2404 < > fax: 706.542.6546
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